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Once we revolutionize the music industry, then we can revolutionize our communities and everything in the world, 'cause what happens is, the communities are listening to the music.

Wyclef Jean

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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
Actor
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Once you're done in hip-hop, you're done.
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If you go in the ring and box and you're angry, you're gonna lose the match.
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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.
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I don't see no more Billie Holidays, no more Marvin Gayes, no more Smokey Robinsons. I don't even see no more Nirvanas.
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It will be true work that the kids can follow, as opposed to a facade of you doin' something, and you're doin' nothing.
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When you're talkin' about a great man, you're not talking more than one person. It's not about how many people are followin' you, it's about the fact that you're a great man, that's all it's about.
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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.
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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.
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You get quick money, it's beautiful, there's sunshine, but at the end of the day, you find out it's all a masquerade, baby. It's not what it seems.
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Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic
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I want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy.
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I've never really [written] something that was inspired.
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I think it's cool to do stuff in a different language. Basically, I learned English through listening to rap. A lot of people think it's funny. But it's true I used to try to get the accents.
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When you find the talent, it's always raw, and when you put the talent in the formula, you get the Knocks.
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What happens is we're all gonna return to dirt, so at the end of the day we're all equal.
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I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.
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My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason I was raised with a lot of studies.
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The Wyclef Jean music is eclectic music. Wyclef represents music -eclectic music. I've been doing this music since I was a child, and I said I will refuse for anyone to put me into a box.
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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.
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At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't let people give you that peer pressure.
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