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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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Miguel
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: October 23
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
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Miguel Jontel Pimentel
Miguel Pimentel
Never
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Aesthetics
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Happiness
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Beautiful
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Women
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Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.
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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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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 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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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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'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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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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A lot of people forget that R&B put hip-hop on, R&B put rock on.
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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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I embrace that I'm different. That I'm unique.
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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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Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego the wall protecting that emotion.
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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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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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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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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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I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.
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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.
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