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'SNL' is probably one of the premiere outlets that a musician can perform on that isn't obviously a music outlet.
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Miguel
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: October 23
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Miguel Jontel Pimentel
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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'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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I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else.
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When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I'm doing what I love to do most. How can I feel pressure doing what I love to do?
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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 have learned that you're only relevant to someone if you're beneficial to them somehow/some way
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I want to be transparent, so I don't leave room for too much thinking.
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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 think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.
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The whole cultural diversity and musical diversity, I think they almost go hand in hand, you know? It's like a mind space or a it's having an open mind to what else is out there.
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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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Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego the wall protecting that emotion.
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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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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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You can't take yourself too seriously. But always have conviction.
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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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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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I embrace that I'm different. That I'm unique.
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I think the goal is in general to broaden my fans' perspectives and their horizons. Not to be cliché. But to introduce them to things that they may not have introduced to 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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