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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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Miguel
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: October 23
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
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Miguel Jontel Pimentel
Miguel Pimentel
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Ego
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Emotion
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Macho

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I embrace that I'm different. That I'm unique.
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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 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 have learned that you're only relevant to someone if you're beneficial to them somehow/some way
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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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I associate creativity with independent music.
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I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.
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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 think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.
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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'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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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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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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You can't take yourself too seriously. But always have conviction.
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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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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 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'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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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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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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