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Wyclef Jean

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

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

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"The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings."

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"There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music."

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"I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may."

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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"I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults."

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"Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it."

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"I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised."

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"So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with."

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"Listening is the key to everything good in music."

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"My parents were Christian."
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"I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences."
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"I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today."
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"Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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