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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If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.
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We always make music and continue to make hits.
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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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Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.
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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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I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.
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There are Depeche Mode parties around the world where people listen to our music all night long. The more remixes we can give them, the more interesting those nights have got to be.
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We want to make sure the thing you're looking for is on Google 100 percent of the time.
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I think it getting a gun should be like getting a pilot's license. I think you should require training to get a license to have a gun.
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While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.
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Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most.
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We are making music for the human race, and even beings from other galaxies are welcome to vibe with us.
