Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" To say I was near our president, performing at the Nobel Peace Prize... I think that's an amazing thing. "

Related Quotes:

" At no time was I trying to write a crossover record. "

" I love and respect theatre, so I am truly honored to have the opportunity to take my voice to the Broadway stage. "

" 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. "

" As a songwriter, I go into the studio, and I just try to write a great song. "

" It's a beautiful thing to be involved with the Special Olympics. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You kind of grow up and evolve in everything you do. "

" I'm still the same guy who gets in front of the mic and just sings. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've always said that inside of me there is a rocker that wants to come out, but I'm a romantic rocker. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've done songs in other languages. I know how hard it is. "

" I like to listen to other songs to get a different point of view and to learn. "

" My daughter is my number one fan. She has always been incredibly supportive, and she tells like it is and how it is. "

" 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. "

" It's important to stay current and fresh. "

" Cancer is tough. Even saying it, it's a tough word to say. "

" Just when you think we're living in a little bit of a divided world, music brings us together. "

" Everybody lives their lives differently. They have a different perspective. They've been through different things in love. They've cried about different things. "

Different Perspective

" As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you. "

" I wrote 'Despacito' with my guitar, but where you can tweak a lot is in the production. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" I'm going through a beautiful stage in my life. I've learned about love, about life, about everything. "

" That is the most important thing to me, what happens behind the closed doors in the studio and makes me an artist. "

" I've learned and grown as a songwriter. "

" Performing on Broadway is an honor and a challenge for any artist. "