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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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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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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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There is no recollection which time does not put an end to, and no pain which death does not remove.
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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 can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.
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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 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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I embrace that I'm different. That I'm unique.
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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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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 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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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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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 believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.
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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 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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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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The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.
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I associate creativity with independent music.
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