Pitbull (Armando Christian Pérez) Quotes
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
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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 don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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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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I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.
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My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.
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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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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.
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R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.
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I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.
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We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it.
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My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.
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As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.
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When it comes down to helping kids, a lot of ways for education to move forward is through music because that's exciting to kids. Reading books and going to a bookstore is not that exciting.
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You never want to defend a joke. People get to choose whether or not to laugh and whether or not they think something is funny.
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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
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Obviously I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct - I'm not going to not do something because it may be politically incorrect. At some point, the metaphors and allegories break down. They disappear, and you just have science fiction.
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I've achieved everything I've wanted to achieve, so I'm not scared of failure. I never gave up, however bad the injuries got.
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I'm taking a lot of freestyle music and flipping it.
