Quotes by Luis Fonsi - Page 1

I talk bilingual.
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Talk
Bilingual
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It's important to stay current and fresh.
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Current
Fresh
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My genre is the pop ballad with a touch of R&B.
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Ballad
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You kind of grow up and evolve in everything you do.
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Evolve
Grow Up
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It's always morning for me until 4 in the afternoon.
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Afternoon
Morning Always Me
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At no time was I trying to write a crossover record.
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Crossover
No Time
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I've done songs in other languages. I know how hard it is.
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Languages
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It's a beautiful thing to be involved with the Special Olympics.
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Olympics
Beautiful Thing
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Performing on Broadway is an honor and a challenge for any artist.
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Broadway
Honor
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I'm still the same guy who gets in front of the mic and just sings.
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Mic
Sings
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As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you.
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Different Parts
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As a songwriter, I go into the studio, and I just try to write a great song.
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Great Song
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I like to listen to other songs to get a different point of view and to learn.
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Point Of View
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When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album.
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Albums
Songwriting
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Pushing the envelope, musically speaking, is what needs to be done to rise to the top.
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Pushing
Rise
Envelope
Musically
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I wrote 'Despacito' with my guitar, but where you can tweak a lot is in the production.
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Guitar
Tweak
Production
Wrote
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Just when you think we're living in a little bit of a divided world, music brings us together.
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Divided
Little Bit
Together
World Music
Living
Music Together World
Bit
Brings
Music World Living
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I've always said that inside of me there is a rocker that wants to come out, but I'm a romantic rocker.
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Rocker
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To say I was near our president, performing at the Nobel Peace Prize... I think that's an amazing thing.
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Nobel
Nobel Peace Prize
Prize
Amazing Thing
Near
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I'm not a social singer. But if one can take a social message via the romantic, that's a strong statement.
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Statement
Via
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I love and respect theatre, so I am truly honored to have the opportunity to take my voice to the Broadway stage.
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Broadway
Honored
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I am very optimistic, and I always think positive, but within reason and never getting too far ahead of the game.
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Optimistic
Positive
Reason
Within
Always I Am Game
Ahead
Game
Too
Getting
Far
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That is the most important thing to me, what happens behind the closed doors in the studio and makes me an artist.
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Closed Doors
Doors
Closed
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
Studio
The Most Important
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It's crazy how the world evolves and the audience gives you an opportunity to really grow and live out your dreams.
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Your Dreams
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My daughter is my number one fan. She has always been incredibly supportive, and she tells like it is and how it is.
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Daughter
Supportive
Fan
Number
Incredibly
My Number One
She
Tells
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I sang in a group for four years, and you just kind of get used to it. You don't really think about being by yourself.
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Just Kind
Sang
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It doesn't matter where we're from, we all have to stick together and help each other out as performers and as human beings.
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Human Beings
Performers
Beings
Stick
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Whenever I get a little chance to get to Orlando, I like to take a couple days' break with the family, just hang out, go clubbing around town.
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Orlando
Clubbing
Hang
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When you're singing about love stories, which is most of my songs, it's good to have a lot of information and to have a different point of view.
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Point Of View
Love Stories
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I've worked my butt off. That keeps my feet on the ground - I'm the same Luis Fonsi onstage and at home cooking an omelette in basketball shorts.
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Home
Basketball
Cooking
Feet
Shorts
Butt
Ground
Onstage
Worked
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In my player, I have a Luis Miguel CD as well as a Brian McKnight CD. I'm known for my very romantic ballads as well as the fun, up-tempo pop songs.
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Ballads
Brian
Cd
Pop Songs
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I treat every album as a new beginning, so I'm asking myself, 'What is pop music now? What are people consuming?' and I take these things into effect.
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Consuming
Pop Music
Music Myself People
New Beginning
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'Despacito' was a song that, from the time I started writing it, I felt that its hook was really catchy and powerful but at the same time very simple.
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Catchy
Hook
Powerful
Same Time
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The genre I listen to the most is salsa, so people look at me and see this guy who's done mostly romantic ballads, but there's always been this other side.
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Ballads
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I don't know what happens at radio as far as what is that X factor that makes a song click and have people get connected to it when it's in another language.
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Connected
Click
Factor
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Everybody lives their lives differently. They have a different perspective. They've been through different things in love. They've cried about different things.
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Cried
Different Perspective
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Ricky Martin just kind of opened a big door, but it's always been around. Latin artists have always been there, but some of them were never doing it in the U.S.
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Latin
Always Doing Never
Door
Just Kind
Opened
Ricky
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'Despacito' started with a melody hook that I had with my guitar only. The beat for this track came after I wrote the lyrics, which I wrote as if I was writing a ballad.
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Hook
Melody
Track
Ballad
Beat
Came
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My style has a lot to do with where I've been brought up. I've lived half my life in Puerto Rico and the other half in Florida, so I listen to music in English as well as Spanish.
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Florida
Puerto Rico
Rico
Life Music Where
Life Music My Life
English
Brought
Puerto
Spanish
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The beautiful thing about it is that 'Despacito' is not really an English crossover. It was just another song that the world made a crossover. I didn't really push it; it just kinda went there.
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Crossover
Made
Song
Another
Beautiful Thing
English
Push
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Part of our job as quote-unquote 'celebrities' is that we can gather people around things that are important. I think it should be a requisite - there should be a clause in the contract that you have to give back.
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Celebrities
Clause
Contract
Gather
Requisite
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The transition to the United States was very interesting. I learned the language. I kind of got into the R&B. I'm a huge fan of the '80s, Journey and all that fun stuff. But when I moved to Orlando, it was more like Boyz II Men.
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Fun Stuff
Orlando
Huge Fan
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My family is the engine of everything, and on a personal level, I feel peace, stability, and they give me force, which is reflected on my work, my recordings, and every time that I go out on tour. They are my base, my everything.
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Force
Give Me
Stability
Time Family Work
Base
Engine
Every Time
Work Family Time
Family Work Time
Personal Level
Recordings
Reflected
Tour
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I am 100% proud Puerto Rican but have lived two-thirds of my life in the United States. So, there will be some things I write in English, but my main way of conversing with my audience is in Spanish because, at the end of the day, I'm a Latino.
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Audience
Latino
Proud
States
United States
Life End Of The Day Day
English
End Of The Day
Main
Puerto
Puerto Rican
Rican
Some Things
Spanish
Two-Thirds
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I block out a good amount of time - could be 6 or 8 months - and I just write. I do a lot of traveling, and I do a lot of co-writing with different writers just to start getting ideas out and kind of get a little bit of direction as far as where I'm going to go with the album.
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Block
Time Good Start
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Everybody has their cliques, and I was very shy. I'm still very shy. Music opened up doors. I would get to my choir class, and I was sort of one of the better kids... I could read music. That's when I realized how good El Coro de San Juan was. I felt, for once, like, hey, I can fit in.
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Choir
Doors
Fit
Hey
Juan
Shy
Cliques
Opened
Realized
San
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I definitely try to be myself and not try to imitate other performers. That's why I got my music degree. I wanted to be prepared and not be a 'product.' I want people to know that I'm not only a singer but a musician as well. I studied guitar, piano, and composition. I believe that it's just about being myself on and off stage.
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Music
Be Prepared
Being Myself
Composition
Guitar
Musician
Performers
Piano
Prepared
Stage
Wanted
Studied
Why
Being
Myself
Try
Music Myself Guitar
Music Myself Believe
Definitely
Singer
Got
Off
Imitate
On And Off
Other
Well
Product
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It's crazy because I was 10 years old when 'Macarena' was all over the place, and I remember looking at it from a different point of view. I remember culturally how important that song was, even though people didn't really know what they were saying. It was more about the dance and the movement of it and the cultural side of it.
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Point Of View
Cultural
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I won't lie, I didn't know there was a concert. I've always known about the Nobel Peace Prize and the different prizes given out for science and this and that, but I didn't know there was a concert the day after. When they said, 'You're going to perform in Norway for the Nobel Peace Prize concert,' I was like, 'All right, I'm there.'
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Nobel
Nobel Peace Prize
Norway
Prize
Concert
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