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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!!
Miguel
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Miguel
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: October 23
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Miguel Jontel Pimentel
Miguel Pimentel
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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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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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Which not peace for the man who is forced to go to war, for he will find his peace. But wish peace for the man who goes to war willingly, for he will never find his peace.
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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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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 have learned that you're only relevant to someone if you're beneficial to them somehow/some way
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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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'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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I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.
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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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I feel that as artists - whatever your medium is - I feel that we're watching what goes on around us and we take what we don't see, or we don't hear, or we don't feel and we do something that speaks of it more about it, for it, or against it - whatever our perspective is - that's what our job is.
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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.
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I think in a world where everyone wants to categorize and compartmentalize and rationalize, it's OK to be different.
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Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.
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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 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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The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.
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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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There's just something really, really timeless about live instruments. There's just something special about them that you can't really duplicate or grasp without including live instruments.
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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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