Wyclef Jean Quotes on Music (11 Quotes)


    For everybody who lost somebody out there and stuff, when you need therapy, music is the best way.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.


    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.

    Our music is more rebel music. We do music for society, for humanity, to help and to heal.

    The way that we're moving forward toward music, it's all about using music together. We have hip-hop, we have rock, (but) all the kids now, we all listen to the same thing. If you're listening to rock, you're listening to rap.

    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.

    What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.

    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.


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