Miguel Quotes

A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.

Let us forget and forgive injuries.

My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

For me, the creative process for me always starts in a personal place. I step away from my iPod or any records or CDs.

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

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.

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.

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.

I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else.

I associate creativity with independent music.

'SNL' is probably one of the premiere outlets that a musician can perform on that isn't obviously a music outlet.

Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.

I feel like R&B as a genre has become a caricature of itself.

I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.

When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I'm doing what I love to do most. How can I feel pressure doing what I love to do?

I don't think I live the lifestyle that's expected of a quote unquote R&B artist. I'm just not that dude.

I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.

I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.

We were born in this society, we grew up in this society. And we learn to be like everyone else, playing nonsense all the time.

Life is like dancing...changing all the time.

We are the same, you and I. We are images of light.

Only the truth can set us free from the fear, the drama and the conflict of our lives.

Just by being happier, everyone benefits because your happiness is contagious.

Awareness is always the first step.

Life is not the body; it is not the mind; it is not the soul. It is a force.

Humans create their own boundaries, their own limitations. We say what is humanly possible, and what is not possible. Then just because we believe it, it becomes truth for us.

Be Skeptical, but learn to listen.

i am perfect because i am inseparable from the infinite, the force of life that creates the stars and the entire universe of light. i am God's creation. i don't need to be what i am not.

Every prayer is an agreement with yourself.

Your reactions are the key to having a wonderful life.

Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves.

You find that the injustice that created a wound is no longer true, right now, in this moment.

Our minds have the need to know. When we dont know we make assumptions - they make us feel safer than not knowing. And we are pretty much always making assumptions.

All around the world, people believe that there is a great conflict between good and evil. Well, it's true that there's a conflict, but it only exists in the human mind.

True justice is to pay one time for every mistake we make.

Life doesn't need to be justified or judged.

You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also.

You see everything is about belief, whatever we believe rules our existence, rules our life.

When you look in the mirror and hate what you see, you need addictions to survive.

Perhaps you're not finished with your story, and who knows if you'll ever finish it or not. Honestly, it's not that important.

If you have the expectation that I have to be a certain way, then I feel the obligation to be that way. The truth is I am not what you want me to be.

The word is a force you cannot see, but you can see the manifestation of that force, the expression of the word, which is your own life.