Top 150 Lauryn Hill Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Everything takes place in a season. There was a season when that’s all I did was listen to the music. Now I’m just in a place where I don’t listen, I create. And if I do listen there are specific things that I listen to, and for specific reasons.”

— Lauryn Hill

102. “I’ve leaned on God for so long. “Hey, God, you just gave me this gift, and I’m just going to go out there and sing.” But I’m realizing how much larger and how expansive my gift becomes when I actually pay attention to it and try to practice and try to perfect it.”

— Lauryn Hill

103. “I try not to have a day pass where I don’t read something from the Bible. It’s like my sustenance to me.”

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104. “I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn’t forgive others.”

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105. “I can give away everything I posses, but am without love, and I have no happiness.”

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106. “God surrounded me with the right team, with the team that I needed to help me exercise all of my ideas. You need that. You need that army, you need that force.”

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107. “We were all crazy about music and almost all the money we had, we spent for equipment.”

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108. “God said, All right, I’m gonna show you. I made you what you are. God takes care of me. I’m just the one who delivers the message.”

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109. “The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.”

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110. “From the time that you are a child, you grow up repressing yourself.”

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111. “Sometimes we all need to take time and give thanks.”

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112. “I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love.”

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113. “I know there are certain gifts that each of us have. The gifts you don’t have to worry about so much, because God gave them to us. It’s the living, it’s the life, it’s the now.”

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114. “I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I’m listening for the tool, I’m listening for the instrument, I’m listening for the art.”

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115. “Every time that God navigates my ship, there’s nothing cerebral going on. There’s very little thought. It’s almost as if I have the directions. Every time I try to do it myself, I’m conjuring up my own concoction and trying.”

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116. “We call ourselves creators and we just copy.”

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117. “I have a problem with procrastination. I have a great deal of difficulty deciding what to wear. It’s a woman thing.”

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118. “God teaches me about reality, so when he tells me to do something, I do, because I’m led to.”

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119. “I ran very fast in the wrong direction.”

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120. “We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, but it’s not usually that way. Love is something deeper and purer.”

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121. “Just because I have a guitar, it doesn’t mean that changes me. I still rhyme, I still sing.”

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122. “We have these images, these icons before us that are not reality.”

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123. “In my life the most influential people are people who are sort of brought to me, as opposed to people I seek out.”

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124. “Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.”

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125. “I’m making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they’ll listen to it and go, “That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?””

— Lauryn Hill

126. “If I never won a Grammy, I would be satisfied, if in fact I could help people. I don’t say that because it sounds like something cool to say.”

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127. “I didn’t have that intense ambition to be a musician or an actress. I just enjoyed it. And by enjoying it, because I loved it, it enabled me to get better at what I was doing, because there was a love behind it.”

— Lauryn Hill

128. “When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.”

— Lauryn Hill

129. “Heart, Desire, and Intensity and those have been the three words I kind of latched onto.”

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130. “To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.”

— Lauryn Hill

131. “I was unhappy with my life. I had acquired everything I thought I wanted, only to find out, This is it?”

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132. “Our first album was a stupid mistake by the record company. They tried to sell us as an alternative act. A big mistake!”

— Lauryn Hill

133. “I never did anything I’m really ashamed of.”

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134. “I don’t listen to a lot of music at all. I think that’s very bizarre too, because it was such a comfort zone for me. But I don’t know if I had my fill, but I don’t listen to a lot of music, because I’m creating it.”

— Lauryn Hill

135. “I had an economic system imposed on me.”

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136. “I hope that by people seeing the result of freedom that they’ll want some, too.”

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137. “I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.”

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138. “I get really afraid of those little comforts, those things that make us feel like we did something great, because I’ve done nothing. I’ve done nothing. I mean that sincerely.”

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139. “The honor to me has less to do with the award. To me that translates in the relationship that I have with the audience, and if my music is helpful to them, that’s the award.”

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140. “If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper.”

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141. “I started to see that my concept of spirituality was totally wrong.”

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142. “I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that’s not like enough to slavery, I don’t know.”

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143. “The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution.”

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144. “You say, Wait a minute, God, you spared me from a slave job in an office, and now I have a slave job onstage. I am not on that clock no more.”

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145. “We’ve got to protect the music and make sure it never gets exploited.”

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146. “My mother has all my awards, because if I walked downstairs every day and saw all my achievements it would be so easy to become complacent.”

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147. “Now you are meeting another Lauryn, so it’s good to be reintroduced.”

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148. “With the things that I love, I tried to put a couple seeds, a bunch of seeds in the ground and see what sprung up. Sometimes it was acting and sometimes it was music. But whatever it was I continued to plant.”

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149. “Our podium is the music. It’s really important that we stay focused, because things become misconstrued in the media.”

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150. “If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It will initially suffer ridicule and even violence- yet ultimately it is undeniable. All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.”

— Lauryn Hill