Luis Fonsi Quotes

I'm totally open to exploring different types of music. I just have to always remember to be true to who I am.

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

The main thing in making your own music is that it's an expression of someone's personality and being. That's what people want to hear, and you can't really teach that - that's just something that comes out. Teaching just hones that.

I'm not trying to make beats that are better than somebody else's. I'm trying to make beats that are genuine to me.

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

The more people do hear my music, they do realize that I'm being true to myself. So there is that conflict, but I think more and more, people are realizing I'm just being me.

The thing that I tell young people is everybody is unique in their approach to the music, and you have to protect that.

I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.

Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton.

I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show I want to see or write a script I want to read, and that's really all I can offer - being authentic.

I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.

Singing your own songs is all about individual expression.

My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.

I don't want to sound like Ross; I don't want to sound like Puff. I want to make my own music: French Montana.

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

I like to make the music that I really love. You're supposed to make your favorite music that no one else played, and I'd like to just keep it at that and not really change it at all.

It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.

I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.

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 don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.