Quote

I always look outside.

Wyclef Jean

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Outside
Look
Looks
Always

More quotes by Wyclef Jean

Image
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
Image
The first thing you must learn is to always treat a man and a woman with total respect and honor, 'cause if you do that, the legacy you will leave behind will be work.
Wyclef Jean
Image
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
Image
I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.
Wyclef Jean
Image
I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.
Wyclef Jean
Image
Respect, my brother, nothing but respect, man.
Wyclef Jean
Image
What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.
Wyclef Jean
Image
No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me is hip-hop. But the hip-hop community I came up in isn't a loyal community.
Wyclef Jean
Image
I lived in a hut with no roof, and I rode to school on a donkey. I used to shoot birds with a slingshot to cook for dinner. Now I prefer to get my food from KFC.
Wyclef Jean
Image
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
Image
For everybody who lost somebody out there and stuff, when you need therapy, music is the best way.
Wyclef Jean
Image
When the Fugees were big, we made a whole lot of money, and what happened was that I saved my money and never spent it.
Wyclef Jean
Image
When you find the talent, it's always raw, and when you put the talent in the formula, you get the Knocks.
Wyclef Jean
Image
I was looking for Quincy Jones, that's who I was obsessed with. Watching Mike [Jackson], I always knew that I had to be a showman on stage, because when people come to you live you always want them to come back. You gotta give them something to remember.
Wyclef Jean
Image
I know that the nice shines I have on is going to pass. The nice cars will pass. All that will stay is the music and the work. That's where I get the inspiration to help people out and work
Wyclef Jean
Image
The voice of an Angel, the Heart of a Lamb, the spirit of a Lioness, the presence of a Goddess, love you R.I.P Whitney Houston.
Wyclef Jean
Image
My battle raps couldn't get me groceries from the supermarket.
Wyclef Jean
Image
It will be true work that the kids can follow, as opposed to a facade of you doin' something, and you're doin' nothing.
Wyclef Jean
Image
Michael Jackson was my musical God. He made me believe that all things are possible, and through real and positive music. He can live forever! I love Michael Jackson. God Bless him.
Wyclef Jean
Image
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