Miguel Quotes
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Interestingly, I matured as a musician and as an artist before I matured as a man. What I mean by that is, I was ready to be completely vulnerable and honest with myself and unapologetic when it comes to how I express myself in my medium. But I wasn't as secure in doing that when it came to just being myself.
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A lot of people forget that R&B put hip-hop on, R&B put rock on.
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I feel like R&B as a genre has become a caricature of itself.
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Twitter is definitely not the place to handle business per se.
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I think the illest thing about Wiz Khalifa is how true to himself he's always been, and I miss that from artists. Nothing about what he does ever felt like he was reaching to be something that he wasn't.
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When I'm a part of someone else's creative process, it's all about facilitating their ideas and hopefully bringing their perspective and making it a part of a song.
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I think it's natural for an artist to explore as they evolve.
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I've honestly never worked with Beyonce. It would be awesome, though; I would love that.
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I think that the best part of music is when it comes from a real place and has an ability to kind of connect on a much larger scale. It no longer is a personal thing, it becomes everyone else's thing as well.
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It was important for me to remind people that there's no formula... there's no boundary to R&B music.
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My sound is definitely what I like to call 'e-clectric.'
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I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.
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Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.
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I grew up in Los Angeles when the racial tensions between blacks and Mexicans were very high. Gang violence was very prevalent.
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Man, I grew up like everybody else. Middle-low income family. My parents got divorced like most of the rest of the country.
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I feel that as artists - whatever your medium is - I feel that we're watching what goes on around us and we take what we don't see, or we don't hear, or we don't feel and we do something that speaks of it; more about it, for it, or against it - whatever our perspective is - that's what our job is.
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I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.
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I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.
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I'm really excited to put music out that is a clear projection of my lifestyle.
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I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else.