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You can't take yourself too seriously. But always have conviction.
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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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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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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I associate creativity with independent music.
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I want to be transparent, so I don't leave room for too much thinking.
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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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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 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 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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There is no recollection which time does not put an end to, and no pain which death does not remove.
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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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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'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 embrace that I'm different. That I'm unique.
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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 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 can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.
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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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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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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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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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