Latest Miguel Quotes from Interviews

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• I embrace that I'm different. That I'm unique.

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  Unique, Different, Embrace

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• All the best times in music were rebellious. I mean, even like Elvis, people didn't want their daughters paying attention to him. He was considered too sexual!

  Miguel

  Daughter, Mean, People

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• I think in a world where everyone wants to categorize and compartmentalize and rationalize, it's OK to be different.

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  Thinking, Different, World

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• I know I'm a very dynamic performer. Once you come to the show, you're gonna want to have the album. I think it's more about showing people that it's OK to share similarities, but it's more important to embrace your individuality.

  Miguel

  Thinking, People, Individuality

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• I think what I bring to the table overall is a sense of my own individuality, especially in the urban-male spectrum of what is here and now.

  Miguel

  Thinking, Individuality, Males

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• There's a lot of stuff in the club that's like, it's cool there because you're drinking and all you wanna do is do ignorant sh*t.

  Miguel

  Drinking, Ignorant, Clubs

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• Underground hip-hop is, like, one of my foundations, I would say a cornerstone of my foundation of my musical tastes.

  Miguel

  Hip Hop, Musical, Foundation

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• I'm not here to write a song for you, I'm here to help you write a song for yourself.

  Miguel

  Song, Writing, Helping

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• What makes your life different from the next n***a? There is something special about you, so let me help you bring out your individuality.

  Miguel

  Individuality, Special, Different

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• What is missing in a lot of urban music is perspective. You hear a lot of regurgitated perspective. It's a lot of: out at the club. Had drinks. Patrón. Big booties. It's this regurgitated idea of living in this, I don't know, one-night-stand moment that always starts at the club and Patrón. And so perspective, perspective, perspective is what I'm an advocate of.

  Miguel

  Night, Urban Music, Ideas

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• I'm a big advocate of music being an honest representation of who you are as a person and your perspective.

  Miguel

  Perspective, Honest, Bigs

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• I'm lonely and I'm still kind of searching for someone I can have a real connection with.

  Miguel

  Lonely, Real, Connections

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• The grass isn't always greener on the other side. I start off kind of in love and then I leave love and I'm single.

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  Sides, Kind, Grass

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• The whole cultural diversity and musical diversity, I think they almost go hand in hand, you know? It's like a mind space or a it's having an open mind to what else is out there.

  Miguel

  Thinking, Hands, Space

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• I think there's a huge parallel that affects my musical taste, and connections that have to do with my ethnic diversity and my musical tastes and the diversity of that. And it's interesting that, growing up on the circuit, it posed such a challenge, not only to me deciding what my identity was amongst my peers, but then on the music side, it was like trying to explain or convince people especially in the music industry that there was a place for what I was trying to do. But at the same time, I think it has a lot to do with timing and even me, like, understanding it.

  Miguel

  Growing Up, Thinking, Diversity

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• There's just something really, really timeless about live instruments. There's just something special about them that you can't really duplicate or grasp without including live instruments.

  Miguel

  Special, Timeless, Instruments

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• I think I'll always make music that sounds different from what is current, but I doubt that it'll sound consistently the same as what I've been doing.

  Miguel

  Thinking, Doubt, Sound

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• I think what I'm trying to build is a reputation for evolving and for change. Because of the rate of information that we have access to at this point, it's almost hard not to be ever-growing.

  Miguel

  Thinking, Trying, Growing

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• I think the goal is in general to broaden my fans' perspectives and their horizons. Not to be cliché. But to introduce them to things that they may not have introduced to themselves.

  Miguel

  Thinking, Goal, Perspective

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• Most people know my music based on the singles, and think of it as scandalously romantic. There's definitely a romantic vibe, but I often sing things that are very direct. I don't beat around the bush much.

  Miguel

  Thinking, People, Singles

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• I would say that the most complex style of singing comes from India. Real, classical Indian music produces probably the best technical and natural singers in the world, just because the patterns and the inflection are so complex in how the style moves and what it requires vocally. I think the best classical singers come from India.

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  Real, Moving, Thinking

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• There are a couple of homeopathic things that can be done, but you can't really beat good rest and lots of water. That's the honest truth. Making sure I'm well-rested and hydrated makes a big difference. Warm water and honey is a go-to, I don't really drink tea unless it's absolutely organic, because otherwise the caffeine will dry my voice out for some reason.

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  Couple, Voice, Differences

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• I've always had this tremendous and very deep feeling of knowing my purpose, you know? It never dawned on me, it always very much known.

  Miguel

  Knowing, Feelings, Purpose

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• I'm a firm believer that when children have a strong conviction about something, it's often because there's some powerful experience from a past life. Something that they didn't get to fulfill.

  Miguel

  Strong, Children, Powerful

  Source: news.spotify.com

• I want to be transparent, so I don't leave room for too much thinking.

  Miguel

  Thinking, Want, Too Much

  Source: news.spotify.com