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I associate creativity with independent music.

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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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A lot of people forget that R&B put hip-hop on, R&B put rock on.
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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 think in a world where everyone wants to categorize and compartmentalize and rationalize, it's OK to be different.
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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 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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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 can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.
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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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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 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 at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.
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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 think my style as far as vocal delivery and even down to the pronunciation of certain words is so deliberate.
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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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You can't take yourself too seriously. But always have conviction.
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I want to be transparent, so I don't leave room for too much thinking.
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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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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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'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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