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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."

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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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"Well, I guess my unease with that is... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to what?"

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"Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians."

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"After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz."

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