Miguel Quotes

I'm putting everything on the line in being able to express myself in a different way than rappers normally do. They might say, 'It's rap' or 'It's R&B,' but I'm stepping outside the box and making music for me and making music for the fans to understand me. I'm going the extra distance to be able to come across different.

I think I'm just doing me, my music, my shows, and my stories.

Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

In terms of music, I can try anything I want, even something that doesn't work at all, because I'm not putting my career in jeopardy.

One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.

Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches.

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you are writing a song; hopefully you are doing it to explore something, to create something, and I don't agree that any of my albums are genre exercises.

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.

I'm not making music for people who like Disney shows. I make music for people who like music.

I wanted to make my sophomore film as different as possible. I didn't want to be pigeonholed. I didn't want to be identifiable.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it.

Music should not be a contest, it should be an individual thing that each band is putting out from within themselves.

I don't want to be trending. Instead of pursuing ideas of being more radio-friendly and... commercial, I want to go harder at being more creative.

Art is such a personal experience, I really try to make my own thing.

I am surely happy to be breaking away from the norm when it comes to my songs.

It's very easy I think when you're a creative person to wait for the right thing and to start getting self-conscious about how you are going to express what you do and what's special about you. I would say in general, a lot of times the answer is that you just dive into something and you find your own voice through that process.

Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own.

Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my way.

I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

A lot of people who have been perceiving my music have been trying to formulate a genre for it, and I think it's just a natural thing; it doesn't need to be categorized. It doesn't need to be sectioned, if you will.