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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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Miguel
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: October 23
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Miguel Jontel Pimentel
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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 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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Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.
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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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A lot of people forget that R&B put hip-hop on, R&B put rock on.
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You can't take yourself too seriously. But always have conviction.
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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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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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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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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 associate creativity with independent music.
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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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Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego the wall protecting that emotion.
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Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.
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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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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'm a firm believer that when children have a strong conviction about something, it's often because there's some powerful experience from a past life. Something that they didn't get to fulfill.
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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 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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