Post by Daniel on Jan 2, 2006 1:43:04 GMT 1
Here's some quote's by Wyclef! Some of them suck (I must admidt, but there are some good one's here aswell!) 
A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.
Wyclef Jean
A lot of people are afraid to fly.
Wyclef Jean
All that violence in the world, we need to stop that.
Wyclef Jean
Being a New Yorker, you get there and you take your sneakers off, you're cooperating, but man, that line be long! I mean, you do definitely want to be safe, but at the same time, it annoys you sometimes, 'cause you just want to get to where you want to get to.
Wyclef Jean
Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
Wyclef Jean
Carnival II will be a multicultural album, like the Caribbean side of Wyclef, the Haitian side of Wyclef. So if it's 16 songs, eight songs will be in my native tongue with my native rhythms, and the other eight will be in English.
Wyclef Jean
Definitely when I got on the plane to go back to Haiti, it was an emotional thing for me. It definitely touched my heart when I landed. I cried.
Wyclef Jean
Ever since I was a little kid, there used to be the Carnival that used to pass.
Wyclef Jean
For everybody who lost somebody out there and stuff, when you need therapy, music is the best way.
Wyclef Jean
For the kids there to see me, to be real poor, they would come up to me, and they didn't want any money, they just wanted to chill, get an autograph, and to conversate. They seemed to think they'd get more out of that than getting a dollar. To me, that was extraordinary.
Wyclef Jean
Here's my brother, Sam, he's the lawyer; he handles that. Then there's Jerry's brother Renel; he handles the label stuff. We definitely keep it family-oriented.
Wyclef Jean
I always have a producer to the side of me, and I never want to do a record by myself.
Wyclef Jean
I always want to know what's wrong with you, why you ain't smiling. That's just my character; I just love people and want to see people having a good time.
Wyclef Jean
I believe in time and space, and I believe in that whatever will be, will be-I mean, man, I would love to go into the studio with Pras and Lauryn and just do music with them. I grew up with them. but life goes on.
Wyclef Jean
I broke the stereotype. Then I picked up the wand and conducted, using my hip-hop vibe. Right there was an experience for me and for them. We are living in a new millennium, a new era. Hip-hop and string instrumentation was brought together.
Wyclef Jean
I definitely want to participate in more Spring Ting's. It's incredible because you get Reggae, Compas, everything on one stage. I think that's what makes it hot.
Wyclef Jean
I didn't grow up to call a woman a ho. That's just how I was brought up. I won't call a girl a biaaat**, unless she wants me to call her a biaaat**.
Wyclef Jean
I didn't put it out to sell 50 million records. It's a statement: This is who Wyclef really is. But on the work of The Carnival... it established me as an artist, a producer, someone who can do scores for films, who's versatile in their musical capabilities.
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
I don't only think that you should have your own studio, but you should also have your own studio, your own mastering facility, your own post room so you can cut your own videos.
Wyclef Jean
I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time.
Wyclef Jean
I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up 'til I was 20. It was a strict household.
Wyclef Jean
I had to make this album. It was my therapy after losing my dad. If I didn't have music, I'd probably be strung-out somewhere.
Wyclef Jean
I know country people who have The Carnival.
Wyclef Jean
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
I led a double lifestyle-in the house, I was one way, and out the house, I was another way. Man, the whole house raised hell, then I got kicked out.
Wyclef Jean
I like Neves. I love the pre's, EQs, compressors; I love the SSL compressors. Those were the things we were looking for. We never imagined that we would have two SSL boards.
Wyclef Jean
I picked up that whole vibe, and I'm moving toward the future with it: the vibe of Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, Curtis Mayfield, that type of thing. Because I'm a musician. I think that my duty is to put out music.
Wyclef Jean
I realized you always have to go back to the roots. My vibe for this album was basically here, Brooklyn, and Jersey.
Wyclef Jean
I sequenced the album like a radio station. Around midday, you'll hear more of the commercial hip-hop stuff. When the nighttime comes, you'll hear more of the depth of the records, when the beat stops and we get into the culture and the conscious vibe and the reggae.
Wyclef Jean
I specialize in lyrics and melodies. I'm good with themes.
Wyclef Jean
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.
Wyclef Jean
I think Lauryn's music is just a reflection of how she feels in her mind, a state of mind of whatever she's in. And me knowing her since she was like 14, I could see.
Wyclef Jean
I think on the new record you get a concentrated 'Clef, it sort of like you get like 12 songs within a conversation of 30 minutes. It takes you through the rollercoasters and the emotions of life.
Wyclef Jean
I try to bring something different to all the artists I work with.
Wyclef Jean
I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.
Wyclef Jean
I went in to record the Philharmonic. I wrote down the parts, and I was inside the studio with 62 pieces outside the studio. They never saw my face or what I looked like.
Wyclef Jean
I would be writing so many songs in my head while I'm making 30 Whoppers and six fries. That's why it never got me down or whatever. Of course, I got fired because the place got stuck up.
Wyclef Jean
I'd say that my parents had the biggest influence. My mother and fathe,r who passed away.
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
I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it!
Wyclef Jean
I'm going to do an all-guitar album because I've been playing since I was 13. My Caribbean style mixed with my rock style. I want to do a musicians' album-just the guitar talking with different melodies.
Wyclef Jean
I'm just a different breed. I love to show off in front of women. That's just the natural breed that I am. I love to show up at a party when there's nobody on the dance floor and get the party started, hijack the DJ, change the music. I'm sort of like a people's person.
Wyclef Jean
I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.
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
I'm not really for events that say this is a Reggae event, or this is a Compas event, or this is so-and-so.
Wyclef Jean
I'm speaking as Wyclef the adult, and then as Wyclef the young man.
Wyclef Jean
I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today.
Wyclef Jean
I'm the King of Spring Ting! Without 'Clef you can't have no Spring Ting!
Wyclef Jean
I've been communicating with the Fugees, and it feels a lot better now than it did three or four years ago.
Wyclef Jean
I've known Clinton for probably the last year that he was in office and stuff. The vibe that I always got from Clinton was, you-know, he never gave me a president-vibe.
Wyclef Jean
If I did something for Will Smith vs. something for Canibus, it's two different things.
Wyclef Jean
In the beginning I had women problems, 'cause you know, I represent for the guys. But I was actin' a fool, whilin' out. I'm not sayin' I don't while out anymore. I'm not gonna lie to you.
Wyclef Jean
In the next seven years, we plan to just take over the whole industry.
Wyclef Jean
It was hard in the beginning: coming from Haiti, coming to Brooklyn. I mean, growing up in the projects.
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
It was important to me to go back to the grungy, because all of a sudden you get excited again, 'cause there's another whole dimension of 'Clef that you wasn't expecting to hear.
Wyclef Jean
It's ike being in college and being undecided about your major. As soon as you choose your major, you focus in on it.
Wyclef Jean
It's not fake. I don't need to go in the studio, throw in a record, do a loop and put it out. To find an artist, you've gotta find the artist that brings it to you. There has to be a 50/50 balance.
Wyclef Jean
Look out for the Caribbean side of Wyclef too. We're trying to push the style of music called Compas. That's the kind of style from our country. You know how you have Reggae, Soca, and all that; so we feel that the beat that we've got can bounce in all parts of the world too.
Wyclef Jean
Masquerade was on the Net for like four months, five months before it came out. Right now, everyone's trying to see if they can come up with a code where they can prevent that from happening.
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
My accomplishment has helped millions of kids see that they can come from a poor family and go somewhere, make something out of themselves. I've been doing it for seven years professionally.
Wyclef Jean
My dad didn't want to hear that you was going into the studio-you came back late at night and he didn't understand that, that theory didn't exist in his mind.
Wyclef Jean
My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.
Wyclef Jean
My parents were Christian.
Wyclef Jean
My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it.
Wyclef Jean
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
On all my records, I just write about what people are going through, so when I go through the airport, I'm going through what you're going through. So I write it just like we go through it.
Wyclef Jean
Our dream was always to get an SSL. I would say everyone that I'm in the business with-whether it's Carlos Santana, Whitney, Michael Jackson, different people - everyone loves the sound of the SSL.
Wyclef Jean
Our music is more rebel music. We do music for society, for humanity, to help and to heal.
Wyclef Jean
Pras, my partner, was coming around with watches, cars, Ferraris-and people would see me walking and be shocked!
Wyclef Jean
Puffy's got Daddy House. Everyone is starting in line. I think with everything that's going on in the world today - financially and the economics of society - it's very important to be self-sufficient with your business.
Wyclef Jean
Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic.
Wyclef Jean
Right now I'm trying to help my sister with her school situation, 'cause she's real smart. Besides me, my other brother's a lawyer... my parents stressed education a lot.
Wyclef Jean
Right now I've got to do something with Carlos Santana, getting ready to come out with Jerry Wonder's group City High.
Wyclef Jean
Right now, I've got the lead in what I'm doing. I'm in the best position. No one expects me to come in at number one, and I'm not concerned with it either. Let me come in at number 20, I'll be happy.
Wyclef Jean
Right now, we're working on a script for my life story and two kids coming from Haiti to America. One turns out to be a musician, one is a gangster. That's all I can say.
Wyclef Jean
So now you have a generation where like that, so if you want the Compas to work, you have to make sure that there's enough Reggae beats in it, there's enough Hip-Hop in it, there's enough lyrical continuity in it. The kids love lyrics, so I think the future for Compas is fusion.
Wyclef Jean
Some girls get turned on by being called a biaaat**.
Wyclef Jean
Steve Marley's like my brother. When you see Steve, ask him about me, he'll tell you. That's like my little brother, you-know-what-I'm-saying?
Wyclef Jean
Stevie Wonder, Eric Clapton, everybody was there, but when I got on the stage and I looked at the balcony and I saw this man with the beard and stuff, I just stopped the show. I was like, Yo, my dad is here! It was the coolest thing. Those are the memories that keep the smile on my face.
Wyclef Jean
That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.
Wyclef Jean
That's this new kid Governor, he sounds just like Marvin Gaye. And he's like only 23. We have another kid, Prolific.
Wyclef Jean
The Compas rhythm is a very unique style rhythm which we feel is gonna take the world by storm.
Wyclef Jean
The last rocker out of Jersey was Bon Jovi, right? You haven't seen some new young blood.
Wyclef Jean
The record company is happy because they feel they have things that they can play. I'm happy because I feel I have enough records to bump in the street and in the dance hall with the reggae, so I'm cool with that.
Wyclef Jean
There's a series of albums that I want to do.
Wyclef Jean
There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.
Wyclef Jean
There's nothing to be arrogant about. I'm not trying to impress anyone. I'm just trying to do music for people who go to work and hate their boss. Or people who hate to work at Burger King. Or bosses who are tired of their employees. It's called doing music for everyone. It's feelgood music.
Wyclef Jean
They said somehow I used to run out of the house and while the Carnival's passing, with no clothes on, and I'm jigging my body, they used to come and pull me in. They said that ever since I was little, I always had the rhythm in me.
Wyclef Jean
This is the first album where I'm explaining the accomplishments of Wyclef and what he accomplished and where he came from... So this album right here is sort of my maze through the projects, and how I got out and became this conscious person.
Wyclef Jean
We do a lot of the Reggae and Hip-Hop stuff, so I think the future of Compas is fusion. Fusion means that the young kids are listening to Hip-Hop and Reggae as well as Compas.
Wyclef Jean
We got the Platinum Sound formula.
Wyclef Jean
We just dropped some very honest lyrics about where we come from and what's going on.
Wyclef Jean
We produce, and we have producers we work with.
Wyclef Jean
We toured with the Marleys. To me, Steve Marley sounds a lot like his dad.
Wyclef Jean
We try to bring a lot of live musicianship to the music. A lot of grooves. We're Caribbean; we from the islands. Out of the music industry, I'd say we're the Caribbean producers of the world.
Wyclef Jean
We're fortunate enough to work with everybody when they're just getting started.
Wyclef Jean
We're trying to be one of the Number One studios in New York City, which we are.
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
What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.
Wyclef Jean
When I did Ecleftic, which was a multicultural album, the effort for that was to show that Wyclef could do a Pink Floyd cover and still have a street beat in the background.
Wyclef Jean
When I first heard Bob Marley I was 12 years old. I had just come to the United States from Haiti, and was living in the Marlborough Houses in Brooklyn.
Wyclef Jean
When I go into the studio... I want it to say something, but at the same time, I want the chicks to dig it. It's got to be sexy.
Wyclef Jean
When I have to make records for people and records for myself, it's two different approaches.
Wyclef Jean
When I lose touch with the audience and the reality of what life really is, I'll be Vanilla Ice or something.
Wyclef Jean
When I think about the biggest studios in New York, they're owned by people that are not musicians or artists, and artists come in and spend their money there, and they'd rather do that, as opposed to getting the headache. So they pay someone else to get the headache.
Wyclef Jean
When I worked at BK... You can't eat and work at the same time, or you'll get fired... The managers, they need to talk to their employees a little better. They don't respect you, they act like you don't have a future.
Wyclef Jean
When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.
Wyclef Jean
When I'm working with other people, I know they come to me to get them to pop off. Me, though, I'm not a pop-off artist, I'm an artiste. Wyclef or the Fugees are not those type of artists.
Wyclef Jean
When it comes down to myself, it's always a fight with my creativity.
Wyclef Jean
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
When they're young, rock 'n' rollers stand in front of the mirror and pose with a broom instead of a guitar. I used to stand and be Bob Marley, singing and strumming the broom in a reggae style.
Wyclef Jean
When we produce our stuff, we're cool. But when you're producing artists, you take the role of a psychiatrist - a musical psychiatrist. You have to work slowly with an artist to show them how to do it. It's all about just doing the best music for the individual.
Wyclef Jean
When we was younger we would clean bathrooms with my father in a hotel, and the cover bands that was playing at the Ramada Inn, they would be playing all these songs... me and my brother forgot we were cleaning bathrooms-we would grab a plunger and do our own karaoke in the bathroom.
Wyclef Jean
When you go to Carnival every year, you bounce to, you-know the different music that make it to Carnival in Trinidad. It don't matter about the country you're from.
Wyclef Jean
When you pick up The Carnival, you get the big genre.
Wyclef Jean
When you throw on a Bob Marley record, it's nothing but lighters up in the air. All the thugs in the dance are just going calm down. I don't know no other artist that you can throw in the middle of a dance like that.
Wyclef Jean
When you're an artist, if you get a 10-year run-some are over 10 years - and you're successful, if you make over $20 million, then you gotta figure the money that you dished out and you spent on videos and studio time and all that stuff, you were just better off investing $4 or $5 million.
Wyclef Jean
When you're in the Caribbean, you're having the best time, you're hearing a lot of beats and rhythms that you don't hear in New York sometimes, 'cause then you come back and it's snowing.
Wyclef Jean
When you're in the studio at a young age, you're not aware that there's a union where you can hire musicians. So you have all of this equipment and you just learn how to play it yourself.
Wyclef Jean
When you're sleeping or getting up to go to school, that's when we're just leaving the studio, and we'll be gone for three hours and then come back and be working another 15 to 20 hours.
Wyclef Jean
You all know I can play the guitar, you all know I can sing, but what you all forgot is these are all the beats that I come from.
Wyclef Jean
You be in a club with these girls and they're looking at you, giving you play, but you don't want no play, because you realize the next week Jay-Z comes into town and it's the exact same thing. If you value your life, you're not gonna be doing that type of thing.
Wyclef Jean
You can hear Bob Marley if you listen to Lauryn Hill. Some of the stuff that No Doubt's doing with that reggae vibe, you can hear that little Marley influence. Another person I love, who I hear a lot of Marley in sometimes, is Sting.
Wyclef Jean
You come to our father's church, we would be playing, rocking that place upside-down. So he wanted us always to stay in that realm, and do education. But I sort of like drifted, 'cause I grew up with a lot of street cats, so hip-hop was one of my loves.
Wyclef Jean
You get conflicts all of the time. But you have to know how to play the chess game. We come with results, and we come with solutions.
Wyclef Jean
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.
Wyclef Jean
You gotta be born with it, baby. We walk with the lip, we talk with the slang. And we pretty. We pretty, baby. We move like Ali in his young days. We good with the jab, good with the stab.
Wyclef Jean
You have to stand back and see the collective of what everyone is doing. That's what keeps it special and keeps it right. What Puffy's doing, Wu-Tang. It's a circle. That's what keeps it interesting.
Wyclef Jean
You never really know how you come to the earth, it's really a mystery, and when you leave, it's sort of a mystery too-but somehow, whoever you're a part of, you have a natural connection with them, and if you tune in, you can tell if they're still here or they're not.
Wyclef Jean
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A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.
Wyclef Jean
A lot of people are afraid to fly.
Wyclef Jean
All that violence in the world, we need to stop that.
Wyclef Jean
Being a New Yorker, you get there and you take your sneakers off, you're cooperating, but man, that line be long! I mean, you do definitely want to be safe, but at the same time, it annoys you sometimes, 'cause you just want to get to where you want to get to.
Wyclef Jean
Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
Wyclef Jean
Carnival II will be a multicultural album, like the Caribbean side of Wyclef, the Haitian side of Wyclef. So if it's 16 songs, eight songs will be in my native tongue with my native rhythms, and the other eight will be in English.
Wyclef Jean
Definitely when I got on the plane to go back to Haiti, it was an emotional thing for me. It definitely touched my heart when I landed. I cried.
Wyclef Jean
Ever since I was a little kid, there used to be the Carnival that used to pass.
Wyclef Jean
For everybody who lost somebody out there and stuff, when you need therapy, music is the best way.
Wyclef Jean
For the kids there to see me, to be real poor, they would come up to me, and they didn't want any money, they just wanted to chill, get an autograph, and to conversate. They seemed to think they'd get more out of that than getting a dollar. To me, that was extraordinary.
Wyclef Jean
Here's my brother, Sam, he's the lawyer; he handles that. Then there's Jerry's brother Renel; he handles the label stuff. We definitely keep it family-oriented.
Wyclef Jean
I always have a producer to the side of me, and I never want to do a record by myself.
Wyclef Jean
I always want to know what's wrong with you, why you ain't smiling. That's just my character; I just love people and want to see people having a good time.
Wyclef Jean
I believe in time and space, and I believe in that whatever will be, will be-I mean, man, I would love to go into the studio with Pras and Lauryn and just do music with them. I grew up with them. but life goes on.
Wyclef Jean
I broke the stereotype. Then I picked up the wand and conducted, using my hip-hop vibe. Right there was an experience for me and for them. We are living in a new millennium, a new era. Hip-hop and string instrumentation was brought together.
Wyclef Jean
I definitely want to participate in more Spring Ting's. It's incredible because you get Reggae, Compas, everything on one stage. I think that's what makes it hot.
Wyclef Jean
I didn't grow up to call a woman a ho. That's just how I was brought up. I won't call a girl a biaaat**, unless she wants me to call her a biaaat**.
Wyclef Jean
I didn't put it out to sell 50 million records. It's a statement: This is who Wyclef really is. But on the work of The Carnival... it established me as an artist, a producer, someone who can do scores for films, who's versatile in their musical capabilities.
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
I don't only think that you should have your own studio, but you should also have your own studio, your own mastering facility, your own post room so you can cut your own videos.
Wyclef Jean
I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time.
Wyclef Jean
I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up 'til I was 20. It was a strict household.
Wyclef Jean
I had to make this album. It was my therapy after losing my dad. If I didn't have music, I'd probably be strung-out somewhere.
Wyclef Jean
I know country people who have The Carnival.
Wyclef Jean
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
I led a double lifestyle-in the house, I was one way, and out the house, I was another way. Man, the whole house raised hell, then I got kicked out.
Wyclef Jean
I like Neves. I love the pre's, EQs, compressors; I love the SSL compressors. Those were the things we were looking for. We never imagined that we would have two SSL boards.
Wyclef Jean
I picked up that whole vibe, and I'm moving toward the future with it: the vibe of Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, Curtis Mayfield, that type of thing. Because I'm a musician. I think that my duty is to put out music.
Wyclef Jean
I realized you always have to go back to the roots. My vibe for this album was basically here, Brooklyn, and Jersey.
Wyclef Jean
I sequenced the album like a radio station. Around midday, you'll hear more of the commercial hip-hop stuff. When the nighttime comes, you'll hear more of the depth of the records, when the beat stops and we get into the culture and the conscious vibe and the reggae.
Wyclef Jean
I specialize in lyrics and melodies. I'm good with themes.
Wyclef Jean
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.
Wyclef Jean
I think Lauryn's music is just a reflection of how she feels in her mind, a state of mind of whatever she's in. And me knowing her since she was like 14, I could see.
Wyclef Jean
I think on the new record you get a concentrated 'Clef, it sort of like you get like 12 songs within a conversation of 30 minutes. It takes you through the rollercoasters and the emotions of life.
Wyclef Jean
I try to bring something different to all the artists I work with.
Wyclef Jean
I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.
Wyclef Jean
I went in to record the Philharmonic. I wrote down the parts, and I was inside the studio with 62 pieces outside the studio. They never saw my face or what I looked like.
Wyclef Jean
I would be writing so many songs in my head while I'm making 30 Whoppers and six fries. That's why it never got me down or whatever. Of course, I got fired because the place got stuck up.
Wyclef Jean
I'd say that my parents had the biggest influence. My mother and fathe,r who passed away.
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
I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it!
Wyclef Jean
I'm going to do an all-guitar album because I've been playing since I was 13. My Caribbean style mixed with my rock style. I want to do a musicians' album-just the guitar talking with different melodies.
Wyclef Jean
I'm just a different breed. I love to show off in front of women. That's just the natural breed that I am. I love to show up at a party when there's nobody on the dance floor and get the party started, hijack the DJ, change the music. I'm sort of like a people's person.
Wyclef Jean
I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.
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
I'm not really for events that say this is a Reggae event, or this is a Compas event, or this is so-and-so.
Wyclef Jean
I'm speaking as Wyclef the adult, and then as Wyclef the young man.
Wyclef Jean
I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today.
Wyclef Jean
I'm the King of Spring Ting! Without 'Clef you can't have no Spring Ting!
Wyclef Jean
I've been communicating with the Fugees, and it feels a lot better now than it did three or four years ago.
Wyclef Jean
I've known Clinton for probably the last year that he was in office and stuff. The vibe that I always got from Clinton was, you-know, he never gave me a president-vibe.
Wyclef Jean
If I did something for Will Smith vs. something for Canibus, it's two different things.
Wyclef Jean
In the beginning I had women problems, 'cause you know, I represent for the guys. But I was actin' a fool, whilin' out. I'm not sayin' I don't while out anymore. I'm not gonna lie to you.
Wyclef Jean
In the next seven years, we plan to just take over the whole industry.
Wyclef Jean
It was hard in the beginning: coming from Haiti, coming to Brooklyn. I mean, growing up in the projects.
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
It was important to me to go back to the grungy, because all of a sudden you get excited again, 'cause there's another whole dimension of 'Clef that you wasn't expecting to hear.
Wyclef Jean
It's ike being in college and being undecided about your major. As soon as you choose your major, you focus in on it.
Wyclef Jean
It's not fake. I don't need to go in the studio, throw in a record, do a loop and put it out. To find an artist, you've gotta find the artist that brings it to you. There has to be a 50/50 balance.
Wyclef Jean
Look out for the Caribbean side of Wyclef too. We're trying to push the style of music called Compas. That's the kind of style from our country. You know how you have Reggae, Soca, and all that; so we feel that the beat that we've got can bounce in all parts of the world too.
Wyclef Jean
Masquerade was on the Net for like four months, five months before it came out. Right now, everyone's trying to see if they can come up with a code where they can prevent that from happening.
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
My accomplishment has helped millions of kids see that they can come from a poor family and go somewhere, make something out of themselves. I've been doing it for seven years professionally.
Wyclef Jean
My dad didn't want to hear that you was going into the studio-you came back late at night and he didn't understand that, that theory didn't exist in his mind.
Wyclef Jean
My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.
Wyclef Jean
My parents were Christian.
Wyclef Jean
My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it.
Wyclef Jean
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
On all my records, I just write about what people are going through, so when I go through the airport, I'm going through what you're going through. So I write it just like we go through it.
Wyclef Jean
Our dream was always to get an SSL. I would say everyone that I'm in the business with-whether it's Carlos Santana, Whitney, Michael Jackson, different people - everyone loves the sound of the SSL.
Wyclef Jean
Our music is more rebel music. We do music for society, for humanity, to help and to heal.
Wyclef Jean
Pras, my partner, was coming around with watches, cars, Ferraris-and people would see me walking and be shocked!
Wyclef Jean
Puffy's got Daddy House. Everyone is starting in line. I think with everything that's going on in the world today - financially and the economics of society - it's very important to be self-sufficient with your business.
Wyclef Jean
Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic.
Wyclef Jean
Right now I'm trying to help my sister with her school situation, 'cause she's real smart. Besides me, my other brother's a lawyer... my parents stressed education a lot.
Wyclef Jean
Right now I've got to do something with Carlos Santana, getting ready to come out with Jerry Wonder's group City High.
Wyclef Jean
Right now, I've got the lead in what I'm doing. I'm in the best position. No one expects me to come in at number one, and I'm not concerned with it either. Let me come in at number 20, I'll be happy.
Wyclef Jean
Right now, we're working on a script for my life story and two kids coming from Haiti to America. One turns out to be a musician, one is a gangster. That's all I can say.
Wyclef Jean
So now you have a generation where like that, so if you want the Compas to work, you have to make sure that there's enough Reggae beats in it, there's enough Hip-Hop in it, there's enough lyrical continuity in it. The kids love lyrics, so I think the future for Compas is fusion.
Wyclef Jean
Some girls get turned on by being called a biaaat**.
Wyclef Jean
Steve Marley's like my brother. When you see Steve, ask him about me, he'll tell you. That's like my little brother, you-know-what-I'm-saying?
Wyclef Jean
Stevie Wonder, Eric Clapton, everybody was there, but when I got on the stage and I looked at the balcony and I saw this man with the beard and stuff, I just stopped the show. I was like, Yo, my dad is here! It was the coolest thing. Those are the memories that keep the smile on my face.
Wyclef Jean
That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.
Wyclef Jean
That's this new kid Governor, he sounds just like Marvin Gaye. And he's like only 23. We have another kid, Prolific.
Wyclef Jean
The Compas rhythm is a very unique style rhythm which we feel is gonna take the world by storm.
Wyclef Jean
The last rocker out of Jersey was Bon Jovi, right? You haven't seen some new young blood.
Wyclef Jean
The record company is happy because they feel they have things that they can play. I'm happy because I feel I have enough records to bump in the street and in the dance hall with the reggae, so I'm cool with that.
Wyclef Jean
There's a series of albums that I want to do.
Wyclef Jean
There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.
Wyclef Jean
There's nothing to be arrogant about. I'm not trying to impress anyone. I'm just trying to do music for people who go to work and hate their boss. Or people who hate to work at Burger King. Or bosses who are tired of their employees. It's called doing music for everyone. It's feelgood music.
Wyclef Jean
They said somehow I used to run out of the house and while the Carnival's passing, with no clothes on, and I'm jigging my body, they used to come and pull me in. They said that ever since I was little, I always had the rhythm in me.
Wyclef Jean
This is the first album where I'm explaining the accomplishments of Wyclef and what he accomplished and where he came from... So this album right here is sort of my maze through the projects, and how I got out and became this conscious person.
Wyclef Jean
We do a lot of the Reggae and Hip-Hop stuff, so I think the future of Compas is fusion. Fusion means that the young kids are listening to Hip-Hop and Reggae as well as Compas.
Wyclef Jean
We got the Platinum Sound formula.
Wyclef Jean
We just dropped some very honest lyrics about where we come from and what's going on.
Wyclef Jean
We produce, and we have producers we work with.
Wyclef Jean
We toured with the Marleys. To me, Steve Marley sounds a lot like his dad.
Wyclef Jean
We try to bring a lot of live musicianship to the music. A lot of grooves. We're Caribbean; we from the islands. Out of the music industry, I'd say we're the Caribbean producers of the world.
Wyclef Jean
We're fortunate enough to work with everybody when they're just getting started.
Wyclef Jean
We're trying to be one of the Number One studios in New York City, which we are.
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
What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.
Wyclef Jean
When I did Ecleftic, which was a multicultural album, the effort for that was to show that Wyclef could do a Pink Floyd cover and still have a street beat in the background.
Wyclef Jean
When I first heard Bob Marley I was 12 years old. I had just come to the United States from Haiti, and was living in the Marlborough Houses in Brooklyn.
Wyclef Jean
When I go into the studio... I want it to say something, but at the same time, I want the chicks to dig it. It's got to be sexy.
Wyclef Jean
When I have to make records for people and records for myself, it's two different approaches.
Wyclef Jean
When I lose touch with the audience and the reality of what life really is, I'll be Vanilla Ice or something.
Wyclef Jean
When I think about the biggest studios in New York, they're owned by people that are not musicians or artists, and artists come in and spend their money there, and they'd rather do that, as opposed to getting the headache. So they pay someone else to get the headache.
Wyclef Jean
When I worked at BK... You can't eat and work at the same time, or you'll get fired... The managers, they need to talk to their employees a little better. They don't respect you, they act like you don't have a future.
Wyclef Jean
When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.
Wyclef Jean
When I'm working with other people, I know they come to me to get them to pop off. Me, though, I'm not a pop-off artist, I'm an artiste. Wyclef or the Fugees are not those type of artists.
Wyclef Jean
When it comes down to myself, it's always a fight with my creativity.
Wyclef Jean
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
When they're young, rock 'n' rollers stand in front of the mirror and pose with a broom instead of a guitar. I used to stand and be Bob Marley, singing and strumming the broom in a reggae style.
Wyclef Jean
When we produce our stuff, we're cool. But when you're producing artists, you take the role of a psychiatrist - a musical psychiatrist. You have to work slowly with an artist to show them how to do it. It's all about just doing the best music for the individual.
Wyclef Jean
When we was younger we would clean bathrooms with my father in a hotel, and the cover bands that was playing at the Ramada Inn, they would be playing all these songs... me and my brother forgot we were cleaning bathrooms-we would grab a plunger and do our own karaoke in the bathroom.
Wyclef Jean
When you go to Carnival every year, you bounce to, you-know the different music that make it to Carnival in Trinidad. It don't matter about the country you're from.
Wyclef Jean
When you pick up The Carnival, you get the big genre.
Wyclef Jean
When you throw on a Bob Marley record, it's nothing but lighters up in the air. All the thugs in the dance are just going calm down. I don't know no other artist that you can throw in the middle of a dance like that.
Wyclef Jean
When you're an artist, if you get a 10-year run-some are over 10 years - and you're successful, if you make over $20 million, then you gotta figure the money that you dished out and you spent on videos and studio time and all that stuff, you were just better off investing $4 or $5 million.
Wyclef Jean
When you're in the Caribbean, you're having the best time, you're hearing a lot of beats and rhythms that you don't hear in New York sometimes, 'cause then you come back and it's snowing.
Wyclef Jean
When you're in the studio at a young age, you're not aware that there's a union where you can hire musicians. So you have all of this equipment and you just learn how to play it yourself.
Wyclef Jean
When you're sleeping or getting up to go to school, that's when we're just leaving the studio, and we'll be gone for three hours and then come back and be working another 15 to 20 hours.
Wyclef Jean
You all know I can play the guitar, you all know I can sing, but what you all forgot is these are all the beats that I come from.
Wyclef Jean
You be in a club with these girls and they're looking at you, giving you play, but you don't want no play, because you realize the next week Jay-Z comes into town and it's the exact same thing. If you value your life, you're not gonna be doing that type of thing.
Wyclef Jean
You can hear Bob Marley if you listen to Lauryn Hill. Some of the stuff that No Doubt's doing with that reggae vibe, you can hear that little Marley influence. Another person I love, who I hear a lot of Marley in sometimes, is Sting.
Wyclef Jean
You come to our father's church, we would be playing, rocking that place upside-down. So he wanted us always to stay in that realm, and do education. But I sort of like drifted, 'cause I grew up with a lot of street cats, so hip-hop was one of my loves.
Wyclef Jean
You get conflicts all of the time. But you have to know how to play the chess game. We come with results, and we come with solutions.
Wyclef Jean
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.
Wyclef Jean
You gotta be born with it, baby. We walk with the lip, we talk with the slang. And we pretty. We pretty, baby. We move like Ali in his young days. We good with the jab, good with the stab.
Wyclef Jean
You have to stand back and see the collective of what everyone is doing. That's what keeps it special and keeps it right. What Puffy's doing, Wu-Tang. It's a circle. That's what keeps it interesting.
Wyclef Jean
You never really know how you come to the earth, it's really a mystery, and when you leave, it's sort of a mystery too-but somehow, whoever you're a part of, you have a natural connection with them, and if you tune in, you can tell if they're still here or they're not.
Wyclef Jean
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