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I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.
Miguel
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Miguel
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: October 23
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Miguel Jontel Pimentel
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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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A lot of people forget that R&B put hip-hop on, R&B put rock on.
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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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The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.
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If you look at any religious description of hell, it is the same as human society, the way we dream. Hell is a place of suffering, a place of fear, a place of war and violence, a place of judgment and no justice, a place of punishment that never ends.
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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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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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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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It doesn’t matter how much you love someone, you are never going to be what that person wants you to be.
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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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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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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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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 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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'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 think in a world where everyone wants to categorize and compartmentalize and rationalize, it's OK to be different.
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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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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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