Miguel Quotes
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I feel like R&B as a genre has become a caricature of itself.
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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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Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.
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I want to be transparent, so I don't leave room for too much thinking.
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I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.
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The grass isn't always greener on the other side. I start off kind of in love and then I leave love and I'm single.
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I just think that Jack White is the consummate artist - an artist's artist. I'm a huge fan.
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If you take your happiness and put it in someone’s hands, sooner or later, she is going to break it. If you give your happiness to someone else, she can always take it away. Then if happiness can only come from inside of you and is the result of your love, you are responsible for your happiness.
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I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life.
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I embrace that I'm different. That I'm unique.
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What is missing in a lot of urban music is perspective. You hear a lot of regurgitated perspective. It's a lot of: out at the club. Had drinks. Patrón. Big booties. It's this regurgitated idea of living in this, I don't know, one-night-stand moment that always starts at the club and Patrón. And so perspective, perspective, perspective is what I'm an advocate of.
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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 associate creativity with independent music.
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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'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 extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.
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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 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 have learned that you're only relevant to someone if you're beneficial to them somehow/some way
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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 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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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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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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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 could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.
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I would say that the most complex style of singing comes from India. Real, classical Indian music produces probably the best technical and natural singers in the world, just because the patterns and the inflection are so complex in how the style moves and what it requires vocally. I think the best classical singers come from India.
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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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Underground hip-hop is, like, one of my foundations, I would say a cornerstone of my foundation of my musical tastes.
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