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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. "
Luis Fonsi
People
Myself
Music
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" When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album. "
Luis Fonsi
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Lot
" As a songwriter, I go into the studio, and I just try to write a great song. "
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Great
Go
Write
" 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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End
Day
My Life
" 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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Know
Language
People
" 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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Well
Songs
" It's important to stay current and fresh. "
Luis Fonsi
Stay
Important
Fresh
" Everybody lives their lives differently. They have a different perspective. They've been through different things in love. They've cried about different things. "
Luis Fonsi
Love
Different Perspective
Perspective
" Cancer is tough. Even saying it, it's a tough word to say. "
Luis Fonsi
Saying
Cancer
Even
" I've always said that inside of me there is a rocker that wants to come out, but I'm a romantic rocker. "
Luis Fonsi
Romantic
Always
Inside
" I'm still the same guy who gets in front of the mic and just sings. "
Luis Fonsi
Just
Front
Guy
" 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. "
Luis Fonsi
Family
Peace
Work
" 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.' "
Luis Fonsi
Day
Science
You
" I've done songs in other languages. I know how hard it is. "
Luis Fonsi
Hard
How
Know
" I'm not a social singer. But if one can take a social message via the romantic, that's a strong statement. "
Luis Fonsi
Singer
Strong
Romantic
" '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. "
Luis Fonsi
Writing
Started
Only
" I've learned and grown as a songwriter. "
Luis Fonsi
Learned
Songwriter
Grown
" 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. "
Luis Fonsi
People
Crazy
Dance
" I'm going through a beautiful stage in my life. I've learned about love, about life, about everything. "
Luis Fonsi
Life
Stage
Love
" 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. "
Luis Fonsi
Always
Kind
Doing
" My genre is the pop ballad with a touch of R&B. "
Luis Fonsi
Pop
Ballad
Genre
" 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. "
Luis Fonsi
Try
Being Myself
Music
" 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. "
Luis Fonsi
Together
Stick
Matter
" That is the most important thing to me, what happens behind the closed doors in the studio and makes me an artist. "
Luis Fonsi
Behind
Me
Important
" As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you. "
Luis Fonsi
Different
Keep
Artist
" 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. "
Luis Fonsi
Good
Information
Love
" 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. "
Luis Fonsi
Listen
Romantic
People
" I never like to get ahead of myself. I'm not one of those people that do that. "
Luis Fonsi
Get
Never
Ahead
" 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. "
Luis Fonsi
Home
Ground
Feet
" I wrote 'Despacito' with my guitar, but where you can tweak a lot is in the production. "
Luis Fonsi
You
Lot
Production
" 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. "
Luis Fonsi
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