Music Quotes

If I'd known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.

Never underestimate those who you scar.

It could all be so simple, but you'd rather make it hard, loving you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars.

I was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road.

You might win some, but you just lost one.

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.

I play my enemies like a game of chess.

With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation', it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more.

Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem. Baby girl, respect is just a minimum.

It's silly when girls sell their souls because it's in.

Everything Is Everything. What is meant to be, will be.

Tomorrow, our seeds will grow, all we need is dedication.

Beware the false motives of others. Be careful of those who pretend to be brothers. And you never suppose it's those who are closest to you.

Consequence is no coincidence.

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.

Hypocrites always wanna play innocent.

It's funny how money changes a situation.

I had total control of the album. Chris Swartz at Ruffhouse, my label, said, 'Listen, you've never done anything stupid thus far, so let me let you do your thing.

As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.