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Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego the wall protecting that emotion.
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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I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.
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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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'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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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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The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.
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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 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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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 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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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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