Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
What happens is we're all gonna return to dirt, so at the end of the day we're all equal.
Wyclef Jean
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
Actor
Film Producer
Human Rights Activist
Musician
Rapper
Kwadèbouke
Wyclef Jeanelle Jean
Nel Ust Wyclef Jean
Happens
Ends
Dirt
Gonna
Equal
Return
More quotes by Wyclef Jean
Haiti is my country. The same way the Beatles are received in England - that's how Wyclef Jean is received in Haiti, do you know what I mean?
Wyclef Jean
My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it
Wyclef Jean
I'm not going away fast I've been around for a while, and plan to be around for a while more.
Wyclef Jean
Respect, my brother, nothing but respect, man.
Wyclef Jean
Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.
Wyclef Jean
The reason why we're warriors is that we rise to the occasion anyone that's felt like the system put them down, and then they rose to the occasion, they're a warrior. It's not about whether you come from the hood or you come from the suburbs, you know what I mean? It's about reality and life.
Wyclef Jean
If you go in the ring and box and you're angry, you're gonna lose the match.
Wyclef Jean
I come from a hut, from a hut I went to the projects, from the projects I went to a mansion so you out there you have ABSOLUTLY NO EXCUSE!
Wyclef Jean
Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music.
Wyclef Jean
I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.
Wyclef Jean
It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful
Wyclef Jean
What I picked up on Michael Jackson - because I study people when I watch them - the way that he counts his rhythm with his feet and his neck at the same time is crazy... so he's hearing multiple things at once. And I don't know anybody who does that.
Wyclef Jean
When I rap, I get to express myself in a way where putting words together is like poetry, and sometimes it's better to talk in certain expressions than sing, you know? So I love, I love to rhyme when I want to express certain things.
Wyclef Jean
I'm 27 years old. I'm going to go into Hollywood really arrogant. I'll be breaking a lot of rules. It's going to be hot.
Wyclef Jean
When you find the talent, it's always raw, and when you put the talent in the formula, you get the Knocks.
Wyclef Jean
Wyclef is a musician that tried to unite as many musicians at once as possible. I am trying to be successful at that. The greatest challenge is that, I just got arrested for protesting in NYC for cutting the school budgets... And I think that it's important to stand up. Schools are important.
Wyclef Jean
I always look outside.
Wyclef Jean
I want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy.
Wyclef Jean
My first record wasn't even with the Fugees. I was signed to Big Beat Records, so I was signed back in 1989 to the label that the Knocks are on now. You can always tell which generation had the pulse based on how they see things.
Wyclef Jean
I'm from the church, my dad was a pastor's kid.
Wyclef Jean