Miguel Zenon
Related IDINA MENZEL I started out playing traditional jazz, and I still do: I love standards, I love the music. But it m... ROBERT GLASPER I was brought up in a house with a lot of appreciation for music, all kinds of music, including jazz... CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT MOBY It's one of my biggest hobbies. I started when I was 8 years old. Then I went to music high school i... BERNIE WILLIAMS At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened t... HERBIE HANCOCK I've got all of the old school vinyls from the '70s - even further back, like the jazz music... TY DOLLA SIGN I listened to classical music. I listened to jazz. I listened to everything. And I started becoming ... CHARLIE HADEN AVICII LAURA MVULA DAVID SANBORN TONY BENNETT I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the &... JACK WAGNER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-rol... ROBBY KRIEGER When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio... AGNES OBEL When I was a young teenager, it was all about The Clash for me and that sort of English punk stuff. ... GREG KURSTIN I love singing jazz. I don't like the idea that classical music should be over here and jazz sho... JESSYE NORMAN I started playing piano when I was 7. And I started with classical lessons. Then I really got expose... HERBIE HANCOCK Jazz attracted me because in it I found a formal perfection and instrumental precision that I admire... DJANGO REINHARDT In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's developme... MIKE FIGGIS I was heavily influenced by big voices when I was younger. People like Whitney Houston, Aretha Frank... ANDRA DAY IAN ANDERSON ELTON JOHN DOC SEVERINSEN I didn't get into the music business because somebody made me take piano lessons, you know. I go... BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE Music is the reason I started talking to people. When I started singing in bars and trains, I began ... BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I started collecting vinyl since I was about 14. But prior to that, I was always interested in knowi... CILLA CALDERON JASPER FFORDE I really like jazz and soul, but I also love so many other types of music, and I didn't want to ... ANDRA DAY When I was a kid, I went through a lot of musical phases, and one was when I'd learn everything ... ERIC CARR I've always thought that jazz needs to be heard by a wider audience in Puerto Rico. I want to pu... MIGUEL ZENON But the smooth-jazz listener is not really serious about music as opposed to the lover of traditiona... JACK SIMPSON When I was a kid, I went through a lot of musical phases, and one was when I'd learn everything that... ERIC CARR JOHN SCOFIELD When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn't go to be an... MISSY ELLIOTT NINA SIMONE NINA SIMONE HARRY CONNICK, JR. I was a kid living in New Jersey, who - I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so t... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I came from being a singer going into jazz. And that's one of the things that polio did for me i... CHARLIE HADEN I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean. TAJ MAHAL I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him. ... TED KING When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I wen... K. FLAY I don't think I've ever been true to jazz. There's always a kind of jazz element to what... JAMIE CULLUM I went to school to learn guitar, solfeggio, and harmony. I wanted to know more about music, how it ... JUAN DIEGO FLOREZ YANNI YUNA When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was... WESLEY SCHULTZ When I discovered the samples on those hip-hop records, it seemed like what I had always been lookin... GUSTAV EJSTES I was lucky enough to grow up in a house where we listened to all kinds of music. We listened to Hai... CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT I haven't traveled in Africa nearly as much as I'd like to. I've been there a few times,... CHICK COREA WYNTON MARSALIS When I first started, the very first body of music I made when I got signed to Atlantic were songs w... WYNTER GORDON One of the things I love about jazz music is that intent is first and execution is second. In classi... IRVIN MAYFIELD I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop. ANITA DIAMENT Once I got to be about twenty-five, I got interested in the music of the time. I started smokin'... GREGORY HINES I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing... RONALDINHO BILLY IDOL I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history... ELIZABETH OLSEN HENRY ROLLINS I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single eve... EDGAR WINTER When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write... JULIANA HATFIELD Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to le... WAYNE KRAMER We don't live in a jazz world, unfortunately. I think if I had lived in a jazz world, I would ha... GEORGE BENSON EDDIE MURPHY NILE RODGERS I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, beca... P. J. HARVEY BILL WYMAN JAMES TAYLOR LANA DEL REY When I started playing the bass, I became kind of fascinated by it and started investigating various... ANDY ROURKE DAVID SANBORN I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even en... DONOVAN BAILEY JACK LOWDEN When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I c... GRIMES KATHERINE JENKINS When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.&... JOHN TESH If I can have the opportunity to go into an editing room, it's like the golden ticket for me. Al... NIKKI REED I started as a musician. I play the saxophone, but from the age of 17, I realised that it's very... JOHN POLSON Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz. ALAN VEGA ROBERT WYATT I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all cam... LAURA BELL BUNDY Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to sch... DAISY BERKOWITZ My first ever tour of my music was in the Netherlands. I didn't really have a grace period to gr... ANGEL OLSEN I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ fre... FKA TWIGS MAYA ANGELOU What I do is always hard for me to explain, but it's like a mixture of New Orleans jazz and worl... BRIA SKONBERG In high school, I decided I wanted to learn guitar, so I picked it up and starting teaching myself s... AUTRE NE VEUT SETH ROGEN I started with me as Awkwafina reciting 'Othello' monologues, and I'd send those to my f... AWKWAFINA It never occurred to me that I'd be a musician. I was just drunk on music, jamming with friends,... MOHIT CHAUHAN The most important element to jazz music is being able to improvise. You learn the language of the m... ERIC ESSEX I've always had a fascination about mixing music. So I downloaded an application and started mes... BLAKE MICHAEL TIG NOTARO Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but ja... BILLY HIGGINS If it wasn't for Kenny Rogers, I don't think I would be in country music. He was that guy wh... DARIUS RUCKER I was really into films when I was younger, but I feel like a bit of a phony sometimes - I started a... AIDAN TURNER I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves a... CHARLIE HADEN CHARLIE PUTH
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I've always thought that jazz needs to be heard by a wider audience in Puerto Rico. I want to pu... MIGUEL ZENON Even though the music I make gathers influences from all over the place, I feel that the core of wha... MIGUEL ZENON National identity is something that's directly connected to our personal experiences and the dec... MIGUEL ZENON Even though there is randomness and improvisation in my music, I want to have some concrete idea tha... MIGUEL ZENON Smoking rooms. They smelled like smoke. But we don't let the little things like that affect us. ZENON KONOPKA Every year in every sport a No. 1 team gets knocked off and gets upset. We got to realize if we don'... ZENON KONOPKA Without (Gillis') presence in the lineup, (opponents) might try to take liberties. But it is a team ... ZENON KONOPKA Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres. 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He wanted me to be a pianist like he was, but I ha... MIGUEL FERRER I've played the drums for so long, I can't imagine saying goodbye to it. MIGUEL FERRER LUIS MIGUEL Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can... MIGUEL SYJUCO Essentially, all expressions of human nature ever produced, from a caveman's paintings to Mozart... MIGUEL NICOLELIS We started all this research way back in the early 1990s, developing a technique that allows us to r... MIGUEL NICOLELIS LUIS MIGUEL He was a symbol of Cuban fishing and of human brotherhood, thanks to all of his years of friendship ... MIGUEL DIAZ We have the great fans in Detroit. We've got a great ballpark, great stadium. MIGUEL CABRERA We were given clear concrete tools. The course did a great job demystifying the art of fiction writi... MIGUEL FERRER I'm the kind of guy who, if I look inside and they throw me a fastball outside, and it's a s... MIGUEL CABRERA I don't believe in nationalism. I think it's a bunch of slogans. It's a bunch of poor at... MIGUEL SYJUCO Around your skin, I tie and untie mine. MIGUEL HERNáNDEZ LUIS MIGUEL [Olivo praised Padres hitting coach Dave Magadan, who, as a minor league instructor, had given Olivo... MIGUEL OLIVO We have about 100 million cells interconnected in our brains. They communicate with one another thro... MIGUEL NICOLELIS My dad won an Oscar in 1951 with an un-Anglicized name, the first Hispanic to ever win an Oscar, and... MIGUEL FERRER I am a really quiet person. I just like to be with my children and my family and being home. I live ... MIGUEL COTTO I made an enjoyable living as a very young man, but I think as I became more comfortable and knowled... MIGUEL FERRER I don't see myself as any different from all the other Filipinos who have gone abroad looking fo... MIGUEL SYJUCO Eventually, brain implants will become as common as heart implants. I have no doubt about that. MIGUEL NICOLELIS LUIS MIGUEL LUIS MIGUEL LUIS MIGUEL LUIS MIGUEL LUIS MIGUEL LUIS MIGUEL Just spanking, yell at them . . . like any parent would. MIGUEL RODRIGUEZ « Occupe-toi de ton action » MIGUEL BENASAYAG MIGUEL RUIZ MIGUEL RUIZ [He was batting .151 for the Mariners, and the harder he worked, the worse he fared.] I lost all of ... MIGUEL OLIVO I think the word 'soul' - it depends on what you define by 'soul.' If you're def... MIGUEL NICOLELIS Of course, I know about Bo Diaz - he's from Venezuela! ... I know all about the players from Venezue... MIGUEL PEREZ He has a cannon. He made me look bad. MIGUEL CAIRO I was a musician and did moderately well at that. I made an enjoyable living as a very young man, bu... MIGUEL FERRER MIGUEL RUIZ I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given ... MIGUEL SYJUCO I don't want to just be the best player. I want to be a great person, too. 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MIGUEL NICOLELIS The kind of neuroscience that I do and my colleagues do is almost like the weatherman. We are always... MIGUEL NICOLELIS There are several patients - there are thousands of patients, tens of thousands of patients, that ca... MIGUEL NICOLELIS In my view, while the single neuron is the basic anatomical and information processing-signaling uni... MIGUEL NICOLELIS Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first ... MIGUEL SYJUCO MIGUEL RUIZ MIGUEL RUIZ MIGUEL RUIZ Jason or Barry Bonds, you don't want them to hit a homer. As a team, you want him to be on base, and... MIGUEL CAIRO He's very intense, kind of the glue for the team. He's motivated every player on the court. He's def... MIGUEL CABRITA We believe that if the world doesn't go quickly to an end, it will be only because Hitlerism transfo... MIGUEL SERRANO The love talked and written about so much in novels, poetry and magazines, the love of one's neighbo... MIGUEL SERRANO MIGUEL RUIZ Here, the hitting coach said see the ball and hit it, and swing how you want to. That's what I'm doi... MIGUEL OLIVO For me Esoteric Hitlerism is being possessed by the archetypes of the collective unconscious which t... MIGUEL SERRANO También a mí me dan miedo las estrellas y todas esas cosas que no se abarcan o no se acaban nunca MIGUEL DELIBES Él no tenía autonomía ni capacidad de decisión. El poder de decisión le llega al hombre cuando ... MIGUEL DELIBES Le dolía que los hechos pasasen con esta facilidad a ser recuerdos; notar la sensación de que nada... MIGUEL DELIBES Algo se marchitó de repente muy dentro de su ser: quizá la fe en la perennidad de la infancia. Adv... MIGUEL DELIBES Todos eran efímeros y transitorios, y a la vuelta de cien años no quedaría rastro de ellos sobre ... MIGUEL DELIBES -Qué quiere, señor cura. Ninguna sabe cuándo le va a llegar la hora. El amor y la muerte, a traic... MIGUEL DELIBES Pero existen, flotando constantemente en el aire unos entes diabólicos que gozan enredando los acto... MIGUEL DELIBES Las calles, la plaza y los edificios no hacían un pueblo, ni tan siquiera le daban fisionomía. A u... MIGUEL DELIBES La cosa pública es un desastre -voceaba, a la menor oportunidad, don Ramón- Cada uno mira demasiad... MIGUEL DELIBES El llanto era necesario para lavar la conciencia MIGUEL DELIBES Los hombres se hacen, las montañas están hechas ya MIGUEL DELIBES Es expresivo y cambiante el lenguaje de las campanas; su vibración es capaz de acentos hondos y gra... MIGUEL DELIBES Los grandes cambios rara vez resultan oportunos y consecuentes con nuestro particular estado de áni... MIGUEL DELIBES Su estado de ánimo ante la Mica era un caso especial, diferente del estado de ánimo de sus amigos.... MIGUEL DELIBES Words are really a mask,' he said. 'They rarely express the true meaning; in fact they tend to hide ... MIGUEL SERRANO MIGUEL RUIZ I think he should stay here. It's too bad, it's one of the best gas stations in Napa. MIGUEL LOPEZ It made me understand the things I didn't understand. MIGUEL LOPEZ I have no illusions that my work can rouse the masses to create change, because literature simply do... MIGUEL SYJUCO When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I'm doing what I love to do most. How c... MIGUEL CABRERA ...when you hate someone so much, a part of you wants desperately to forgive them. But you can't dec... MIGUEL SYJUCO MIGUEL RUIZ Vilification, by its definition, creates an antagonistic struggle, an us-versus-them mentality, that... MIGUEL SYJUCO I was like any other kid: very normal, I can say. I just was a simple kid that came from a humble fa... MIGUEL COTTO This could be year to get it done. This is the first uniformed team in many years. They're competiti... MIGUEL CABRITA Love and honesty don’t mix. MIGUEL SYJUCO MIGUEL RUIZ My team members are Hector Soto, who is a boxing promoter and Vice-president of Miguel Cotto Promoti... MIGUEL COTTO MIGUEL RUIZ MIGUEL RUIZ I think villainy just comes naturally to me. I get to work it out naturally so I can be a nice perso... MIGUEL FERRER He just said he brought up my name because he told them everything he was taking. I'm not mad at him... MIGUEL TEJADA May the sun come, it's a new day; In the pure land of fantasy; That our darkness enlightened MIGUEL TORGA It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness. MIGUEL SYJUCO We definitely need to overcome the fact that we don't have any divers and we can't secure any points... MIGUEL MOLINA The brain needs to have a story; it needs to have a logical screenplay telling where we're comin... MIGUEL NICOLELIS I just try to find ways to help my team win. MIGUEL CABRERA I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sp... MIGUEL SYJUCO There is that potential of the expats coming back to the Philippines. But sadly they are no opportun... MIGUEL SYJUCO The Philippines, it has a politics of patronage. Family and favors, in addition to the old cliche of... MIGUEL SYJUCO Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize t... MIGUEL SYJUCO MIGUEL RUIZ ...onde está ou tenha estado um homem é preciso que esteja ou tenha estado toda a humanidade. MIGUEL TORGA Alimentados de pesimismo no vivimos la vida, la sufrimos. MIGUEL DELIBES Rhetoric abounds in the cemeteries of reason. MIGUEL QUEAH Não tenhas medo, ouve:MIGUEL TORGA Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective. MIGUEL SYJUCO To be angry implies you care MIGUEL SYJUCO This game proved to me we have to be more prepared the next time. We should have it in November. All... MIGUEL BATISTA When he chose to play for Team USA it was like a cloud of smoke went up. MIGUEL BATISTA The fall took all the markets by surprise and especially ours, which was very bullish. It will take ... MIGUEL DANERI Scrimmages within the administration on Venezuela were often very, very rough. MIGUEL DIAZ We want to help out the campus community. MIGUEL DREW This is an important march for human rights. Now, it is time to wake up so they can respect us as hu... MIGUEL MIRANDA I've always admired his focus and how he does what it takes to get it done. I feel like I've learned... MIGUEL MOLINA [He was batting .151 for the Mariners, and the harder he worked, the worse he fared.] I lost all of ... MIGUEL OLIVO It was like a blessing. They said it wasn't going to fall anymore. MIGUEL RAMIREZ This is kind of hard work. It's too tough for some of the locals. But we make money doing this. We c... MIGUEL RAMIREZ It's a good position to be in with everyone pretty much healthy. 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I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, ... 
When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied... 
I love finding out-of-the-box inspirations and blending them with what I've done in the past. An... 
I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the ja... 
Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain te... 
Presley is country music, white music. Jazz is black music - it was invented by the blacks in New Or... 
When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and fo... 
I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything e... 
Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance... 
I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz. 
This is music I've known since I first started to play the guitar. Ray's music was one of my inspira... 
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play b... 
I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at th... 
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the ... 
New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify mus... 
I didn't expect to have music as my main thing. I always thought I was going to be a lawyer. Whe... 
My father is a jazz musician, so I grew up hearing jazz. My parents loved it, but I didn't like ... 
I am quite a romantic person, really, and I should have put that into my music earlier, but I was pr... 
I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the f... 
Ultimately, when I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do... 
When I was very young, there was a lot of music at home, mostly jazz. I was walking around singing a... 
I didn't want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn... 
I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me g... 
Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually d... 
I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to s... 
Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn... 
There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that m... 
Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to Californ... 
I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, that's all I'... 
It was a free-for-all with music when I was growing up. My mother was a huge music fanatic so I was ... 
I think with me and the type of music that I'm trying to make, it's always going be soulful ... 
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards 
1. Be Impeccable With Your Word
I am very adamant about keeping my private life private. I don't prefer to talk about my family. 
I don't like rock. Honestly, I like to listen to it, but it's not for me. There's a lot of musical g... 
You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others. 
Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourslef or to g... 
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice. 
Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love. 
I love and respect all religions and philosophies. I see how they get formed, how they grow up, and ... 
I don't know what I am. And it's not important. 
For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. ... 
Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulen... 
Feast of All Souls If you ask me how I believe in God, how God creates Himself in me, and reveals... 
Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how... 
There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humo... 