Luis Fonsi Quotes
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I'm still the same guy who gets in front of the mic and just sings.
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Each album always has its own sound.
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It's a beautiful thing to be involved with the Special Olympics.
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The genre I listen to the most is salsa, so people look at me and see this guy who's done mostly romantic ballads, but there's always been this other side.
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Everybody has their cliques, and I was very shy. I'm still very shy. Music opened up doors. I would get to my choir class, and I was sort of one of the better kids... I could read music. That's when I realized how good El Coro de San Juan was. I felt, for once, like, hey, I can fit in.
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That is the most important thing to me, what happens behind the closed doors in the studio and makes me an artist.
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I treat every album as a new beginning, so I'm asking myself, 'What is pop music now? What are people consuming?' and I take these things into effect.
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It's crazy how the world evolves and the audience gives you an opportunity to really grow and live out your dreams.
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In my player, I have a Luis Miguel CD as well as a Brian McKnight CD. I'm known for my very romantic ballads as well as the fun, up-tempo pop songs.
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I wrote 'Despacito' with my guitar, but where you can tweak a lot is in the production.
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It's crazy because I was 10 years old when 'Macarena' was all over the place, and I remember looking at it from a different point of view. I remember culturally how important that song was, even though people didn't really know what they were saying. It was more about the dance and the movement of it and the cultural side of it.
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Pushing the envelope, musically speaking, is what needs to be done to rise to the top.
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Just when you think we're living in a little bit of a divided world, music brings us together.
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To say I was near our president, performing at the Nobel Peace Prize... I think that's an amazing thing.
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My family is the engine of everything, and on a personal level, I feel peace, stability, and they give me force, which is reflected on my work, my recordings, and every time that I go out on tour. They are my base, my everything.
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As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you.
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The beautiful thing about it is that 'Despacito' is not really an English crossover. It was just another song that the world made a crossover. I didn't really push it; it just kinda went there.
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When you're singing about love stories, which is most of my songs, it's good to have a lot of information and to have a different point of view.
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It doesn't matter where we're from, we all have to stick together and help each other out as performers and as human beings.
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I never like to get ahead of myself. I'm not one of those people that do that.
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'Despacito' was a song that, from the time I started writing it, I felt that its hook was really catchy and powerful but at the same time very simple.
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Ricky Martin just kind of opened a big door, but it's always been around. Latin artists have always been there, but some of them were never doing it in the U.S.
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You kind of grow up and evolve in everything you do.
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I sang in a group for four years, and you just kind of get used to it. You don't really think about being by yourself.