Miguel Quotes

#1. I cut a loaf of bread, and there wasn't any bread, Is this an omen?

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#2. I feel like when you are really appreciative, it makes it easier to have a better outlook and perspective of life in general.

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#3. I fell in love with funk music through my father - Funkadelic - as well as soul and classical early on.

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#4. I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.

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#5. I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.

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#6. 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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#7. Some of us are only going to show our emotions while we're actually vulnerable. But that's what makes us human.

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#8. I just think that Jack White is the consummate artist - an artist's artist. I'm a huge fan.

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#9. 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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#10. My sound is definitely what I like to call 'e-clectric.'

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#11. Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion.

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#12. I always had a fascination with music.

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#13. 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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#14. I associate creativity with independent music.

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#15. You know, people aren't always the most open-minded.

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#16. If you're interested in any artist, go see them live. I always say that you should go see an artist live. That's an experience that only you and the people in the room can say that they have.

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#17. One of the most telling things about a person is how they say hello, handshakes.

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#18. Goat screaming videos are hilarious.

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#19. I've honestly never worked with Beyonce. It would be awesome, though; I would love that.

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#20. 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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#21. At the end of the day, as a grown man, I don't really care what the sexuality of the next man is.

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#22. I think your conversations are indicative of your tastes - even your diction.

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#23. I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life.

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#24. '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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#25. For me, the creative process for me always starts in a personal place. I step away from my iPod or any records or CDs.

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#26. I want everyone to express themselves in a unique way.

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#27. I have learned that you're only relevant to someone if you're beneficial to them somehow/some way

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#28. I'm a nice guy, but I like to get into trouble.

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#29. I think there's always been progressive R&B music.

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#30. I think that the best part of music is when it comes from a real place and has an ability to kind of connect on a much larger scale. It no longer is a personal thing, it becomes everyone else's thing as well.

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#31. It was important for me to remind people that there's no formula ... there's no boundary to R&B music.

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#32. The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.

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#33. I grew up in Los Angeles when the racial tensions between blacks and Mexicans were very high. Gang violence was very prevalent.

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#34. Man, I grew up like everybody else. Middle-low income family. My parents got divorced like most of the rest of the country.

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#35. 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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#36. I feel like R&B as a genre has become a caricature of itself.

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#37. Twitter is definitely not the place to handle business per se.

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#38. A lot of people forget that R&B put hip-hop on, R&B put rock on.

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#39. Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.

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#40. I'm really excited to put music out that is a clear projection of my lifestyle.

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#41. 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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#42. To its credit, hip-hop is my favorite genre, to this day, and it's hard not to be influenced by the culture and by the movement of it and by the soul of it.

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#43. I think it's natural for an artist to explore as they evolve.

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#44. Let's play a little game just between you and I. Obviously physical. You gotta use your mind.

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#45. You only know that you're in love when you suffer.

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#46. Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

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#47. 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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#48. I think the illest thing about Wiz Khalifa is how true to himself he's always been, and I miss that from artists. Nothing about what he does ever felt like he was reaching to be something that he wasn't.

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#49. 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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#50. What I will say is that Naz and I are not together just because we like to hang out. The purpose is finding someone that you can spend the rest of your life with, for me anyways.

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#51. 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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