J Balvin (José Álvaro Osorio Balvin) Quotes
We are making music for the human race, and even beings from other galaxies are welcome to vibe with us.

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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
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I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.
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I'm trying to find the balance and do, like, 'Spanglish' music or some songs in Spanish and others in English or do a translation.
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I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
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The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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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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Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.
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I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.
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Most experiences are either sensual or intellectual. Chamber music, played by a small group so the listener can follow what each player is doing, is both.
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My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.
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There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.
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I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.
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History is more interesting than most people think.
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If I could never work again and I could just listen to music and walk, I'd be very, very happy.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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Not that I want to put the entire rap music style down - I just don't like it. And I know somewhere there's gotta be another guy like that. There's gotta be a guy just like that - just like me. There's gotta be somebody, somewhere... Maybe, maybe an assassin type.
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I love Adele and Lykke Li. I also listen to classical music as well.
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I always tell the fans, 'Screw it! Like what you like. Listen to what you want.' Insisting that one type of music is better than the next is snobbery, and I have no time for that. Check out all the music that's out there. There's great stuff you're probably missing.
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I called the album 'The Chemo' because it seems like the industry and music overall is dying slowly.
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We all make mistakes but one has to move on.
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Freedom of navigation through international waterways is critical to the international community and to nations in the region, including Iran.
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We are making music for the human race, and even beings from other galaxies are welcome to vibe with us.