Bad Bunny (Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio) Quotes
Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit 'MIA.' That's the best part of it.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
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I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
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Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism.
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I try to take the time to appreciate and I certainly do appreciate and I do feel proud but that is probably one of the things I need to work on, building a bit of time for myself.
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But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
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I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.
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Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.
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I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
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There's so much excellent new music around that I can't afford to buy it all and I haven't the time to review as much as I'd like. I can't remember a better time to be a musician or to listen to music!
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I grew up listening to Nick Drake. Without him, I would not write music - and 'Pink Moon' is my favourite LP.
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Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.
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Music is my first love.
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I don't live for the accolades. I'm more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.
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The most flattering thing I hear is, 'I didn't think I liked country music before I heard your record.'
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Music rules a lot of my life - I was bitten by the bug young.
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On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues.
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.
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Of course we'd rather not see Picasso teacups and sheets.
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Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
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Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit 'MIA.' That's the best part of it.
