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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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Miguel
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: October 23
Composer
Guitarist
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Miguel Jontel Pimentel
Miguel Pimentel
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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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A lot of people forget that R&B put hip-hop on, R&B put rock on.
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I think the goal is in general to broaden my fans' perspectives and their horizons. Not to be cliché. But to introduce them to things that they may not have introduced to 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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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 have learned that you're only relevant to someone if you're beneficial to them somehow/some way
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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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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 at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.
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There is no recollection which time does not put an end to, and no pain which death does not remove.
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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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Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.
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I associate creativity with independent music.
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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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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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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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