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Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

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Miguel
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: October 23
Composer
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Miguel Jontel Pimentel
Miguel Pimentel
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I've always had this tremendous and very deep feeling of knowing my purpose, you know? It never dawned on me, it always very much known.
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I think I'll always make music that sounds different from what is current, but I doubt that it'll sound consistently the same as what I've been doing.
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I want to be transparent, so I don't leave room for too much thinking.
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It doesn’t matter how much you love someone, you are never going to be what that person wants you to be.
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I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.
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The manifestation of the disease of fear is anger, hate, sadness, envy, and hypocrisy the result of the disease is all the emotions that make humans suffer.
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I know I'm a very dynamic performer. Once you come to the show, you're gonna want to have the album. I think it's more about showing people that it's OK to share similarities, but it's more important to embrace your individuality.
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I don't think I live the lifestyle that's expected of a quote unquote R&B artist. I'm just not that dude.
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I embrace that I'm different. That I'm unique.
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Underground hip-hop is, like, one of my foundations, I would say a cornerstone of my foundation of my musical tastes.
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I have learned that you're only relevant to someone if you're beneficial to them somehow/some way
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I'm not here to write a song for you, I'm here to help you write a song for yourself.
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The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.
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I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.
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I'm a firm believer that when children have a strong conviction about something, it's often because there's some powerful experience from a past life. Something that they didn't get to fulfill.
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What makes your life different from the next n***a? There is something special about you, so let me help you bring out your individuality.
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All the best times in music were rebellious. I mean, even like Elvis, people didn't want their daughters paying attention to him. He was considered too sexual!
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That is why every brother and sister will react differently according to how they learn to defend themselves and adapt to different circumstances. When our parents are constantly fighting, when there is disharmony, disrespect, and lies, we learn the emotional way of being like them.
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PERSONAL IMPORTANCE or taking things personally, is an expression of SELFISHNESS because we make the assumption that everything is about ME!! NOTHING PEOPLE DO IS BECAUSE OF YOU!! IT'S BECAUSE OF THEMSELVES!!
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Just as eunuchs will never know aesthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know ethics, nor will they ever succeed in defining happiness, for happiness is a thing that is lived and felt, not a thing that is reasoned or defined.
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