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When I'm a part of someone else's creative process, it's all about facilitating their ideas and hopefully bringing their perspective and making it a part of a song.
Miguel
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Miguel
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: October 23
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Miguel Jontel Pimentel
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If you look at any religious description of hell, it is the same as human society, the way we dream. Hell is a place of suffering, a place of fear, a place of war and violence, a place of judgment and no justice, a place of punishment that never ends.
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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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I think what I'm trying to build is a reputation for evolving and for change. Because of the rate of information that we have access to at this point, it's almost hard not to be ever-growing.
Miguel
There is no recollection which time does not put an end to, and no pain which death does not remove.
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I think what I bring to the table overall is a sense of my own individuality, especially in the urban-male spectrum of what is here and now.
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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 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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Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.
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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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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!
Miguel
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.
Miguel
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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I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else.
Miguel
I think in a world where everyone wants to categorize and compartmentalize and rationalize, it's OK to be different.
Miguel
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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I want to be transparent, so I don't leave room for too much thinking.
Miguel
I don't think I live the lifestyle that's expected of a quote unquote R&B artist. I'm just not that dude.
Miguel
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.
Miguel
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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