Top 60 Wyclef Jean Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Mama, you know you raised me with no father figure. I wanna take this time to thank you, even though I’m doing life.”

— Wyclef Jean

2. “I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.”

— Wyclef Jean

3. “I’m cheap, and I’m proud of it!”

— Wyclef Jean

4. “At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don’t let people give you that peer pressure.”

— Wyclef Jean

5. “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.”

— Wyclef Jean

6. “Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.”

— Wyclef Jean

7. “I think the greatest thing about America is the American Dream.”

— Wyclef Jean

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

— Wyclef Jean

9. “I don’t see no more Billie Holidays, no more Marvin Gayes, no more Smokey Robinsons. I don’t even see no more Nirvanas.”

— Wyclef Jean

10. “America is a melting pot of immigrants. So actually, if you took all of the immigrants outside of America, you’d be missing a lot of flavor, starting with the food, with the culture, with the dance, with everything.”

— Wyclef Jean

11. “My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies.”

— Wyclef Jean

12. “I come from a hut, from a hut I went to the projects, from the projects I went to a mansion so you out there you have ABSOLUTLY NO EXCUSE!”

— Wyclef Jean

13. “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.”

— Wyclef Jean

14. “I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up til I was 20. It was a strict household.”

— Wyclef Jean

15. “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.”

— Wyclef Jean

16. “I’m not going away fast; I’ve been around for a while, and plan to be around for a while more.”

— Wyclef Jean

17. “When I rap, I get to express myself in a way where putting words together is like poetry, and sometimes it’s better to talk in certain expressions than sing, you know? So I love, I love to rhyme when I want to express certain things.”

— Wyclef Jean

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

— Wyclef Jean

19. “The reason why we love America so much is America is the only place you can actually come in and wave your flag.”

— Wyclef Jean

20. “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.”

— Wyclef Jean

21. “Michael Jackson was my musical God. He made me believe that all things are possible, and through real and positive music. He can live forever! I love Michael Jackson. God Bless him.”

— Wyclef Jean

22. “Haiti is my country. The same way the Beatles are received in England – that’s how Wyclef Jean is received in Haiti, do you know what I mean?”

— Wyclef Jean

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

— Wyclef Jean

24. “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.”

— Wyclef Jean

25. “I’ve known Clinton for probably the last year that he was in office and stuff. The vibe that I always got from Clinton was, you-know, he never gave me a president-vibe.”

— Wyclef Jean

26. “If I can’t take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I’ve been singing about, like equal rights, doesn’t mean anything.”

— Wyclef Jean

27. “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.”

— Wyclef Jean

28. “I think it’s cool to do stuff in a different language. Basically, I learned English through listening to rap. A lot of people think it’s funny. But it’s true; I used to try to get the accents.”

— Wyclef Jean

29. “Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there’s a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of fitted suits, elegant cuts; I think it’s cool to mash up a lot of different looks.”

— Wyclef Jean

30. “Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.”

— Wyclef Jean

31. “I’m hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.”

— Wyclef Jean

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

— Wyclef Jean

33. “I like Bergen County because it’s nice and quiet. It’s beautiful, and I can get to the city way quick.”

— Wyclef Jean

34. “My first record wasn’t even with the Fugees. I was signed to Big Beat Records, so I was signed back in 1989 to the label that the Knocks are on now. You can always tell which generation had the pulse based on how they see things.”

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35. “That’s the best way to feed the human mind. That’s how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.”

— Wyclef Jean

36. “When you find the talent, it’s always raw, and when you put the talent in the formula, you get the Knocks.”

— Wyclef Jean

37. “When you enter the realm of politics, you don’t enter it because you want to be popular. When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song.”

— Wyclef Jean

38. “I’m like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I’ve loved entertaining people ever since I was little.”

— Wyclef Jean

39. “I like to go against the grain, against what’s out there. Every day is like a challenge.”

— Wyclef Jean

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

— Wyclef Jean

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

— Wyclef Jean

42. “People often associate raves with drugs, but for me raves are more associated with self-expression.”

— Wyclef Jean

43. “The thing which America allows you to be is it’s the country of opportunities.”

— Wyclef Jean

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

— Wyclef Jean

45. “The Wyclef Jean music is eclectic music. Wyclef represents music -eclectic music. I’ve been doing this music since I was a child, and I said I will refuse for anyone to put me into a box.”

— Wyclef Jean

46. “I’ve been communicating with the Fugees, and it feels a lot better now than it did three or four years ago.”

— Wyclef Jean

47. “I’m from the church, my dad was a pastor’s kid.”

— Wyclef Jean

48. “My accomplishment has helped millions of kids see that they can come from a poor family and go somewhere, make something out of themselves. Ive been doing it for seven years professionally.”

— Wyclef Jean

49. “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.”

— Wyclef Jean

50. “My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it.”

— Wyclef Jean