J Balvin (José Álvaro Osorio Balvin) Quotes
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Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted.
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I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your 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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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.
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When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.
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By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba - 'Lana Del Rey' reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.
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The most rewarding thing for someone like me is for someone else to find solace through my music.
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I like movies, because it's kind of a combination of every art, it's like it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat.
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We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.
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In therapy you sit down; in analysis you lie down.
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Every transaction in commerce is an independent transaction.
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Music goes further than any border, any language.
