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A lot of people forget that R&B put hip-hop on, R&B put rock on.
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 my style as far as vocal delivery and even down to the pronunciation of certain words is so deliberate.
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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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Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.
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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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Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego the wall protecting that emotion.
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I embrace that I'm different. That I'm unique.
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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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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'm not here to write a song for you, I'm here to help you write a song for yourself.
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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 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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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'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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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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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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You can't take yourself too seriously. But always have conviction.
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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 feel that as artists - whatever your medium is - I feel that we're watching what goes on around us and we take what we don't see, or we don't hear, or we don't feel and we do something that speaks of it more about it, for it, or against it - whatever our perspective is - that's what our job is.
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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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