Wyclef Jean Quotes (81 Quotes)

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

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.

As a child growing up in Haiti I experienced the wrath and destructive power of hurricanes. My heart is filled with tears for the victims and all those who have lost loved ones in Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

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.

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.

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.

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

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.

I specialize in lyrics and melodies. I'm good with themes.

I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time.

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.

I know country people who have The Carnival.

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.

It's ike being in college and being undecided about your major. As soon as you choose your major, you focus in on it.

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.

In the next seven years, we plan to just take over the whole industry.

I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it!

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.

All that violence in the world, we need to stop that.

He rules, he's real tough when it comes to business. I'm like a sponge right now. I know I can pick up things from him.

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.

She looks the most beautiful when she's in the field natural, no makeup, nothing, Because you see Angelina, the angel. It doesn't get any better than that.

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

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.

The way that I could describe Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, it was just glowing. What connects them is that they share the same goals. They love kids and that is just a connection right there. When you love kids the conversation is endless. It's forever.

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.

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.

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.

Her beauty lies in her work. She looks the most beautiful in the field -- natural, no makeup, nothing.

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.

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.

I think the greatest thing about America is the American dream. America allows you take that dream and bring it back to your country and help you inspire more people.

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

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.

When I lose touch with the audience and the reality of what life really is, I'll be Vanilla Ice or something.

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.

I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.

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.

Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic.

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.

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.

I want to see the violence in Haiti stopped. Innocent people, innocent children are getting hurt and killed every day.

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.

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.

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.

No matter what happens today, yesterday was historical. The only thing that erupted was the thirst to vote.

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.

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

We're trying to be one of the Number One studios in New York City, which we are.