The 42-year-old Miami-born rapper and businessman Pitbull (born Armando Christian Pérez) is a phenomenon. He’s the type of person that wherever he shows up, you know it’s going to be a party. That’s his brand and he owns it well.
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The Grammy Award-winning rapper, who boasts billions and billions of song streams to date, has made quite the splash. But with all that success to his name, one might wonder what Pitbull has to say about his career, music and the world around him.
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So, below, without further ado, let’s see what the artist has to say outside of his popular songs. These are the 20 best Pitbull quotes.
1. “I’m taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.”
2. “I’m definitely someone who enjoys life and wakes up with a ball of energy.”
3. “With all the negativity going on in the world right now, people need an escape. When you give them a hit record or a great record, it allows them to escape for at least three to four minutes. They’re not thinking bills or economy or immigration or war when you create that kind of ambiance.”
4. “You can’t get much whiter than me.”
5. “I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I’m from Miami, which wasn’t getting looked at at the time. Three, I’m Cuban. But now, I’ve made everything that stacked against me into a virtue.”
6. “I won’t perform in Cuba until there’s no more Castro and there’s a free Cuba. To me, Cuba’s the biggest prison in the world, and I would be very hypocritical were I to perform there.”
7. “Every time I reach a new audience, that means I’m doing something right.”
8. “It’s all about music because music is basically what’s… been my avenue out of maybe being involved in things I shouldn’t be.”
9. “I’m no longer an artist, I’m a business partner.”
10. “Look, Pitbull is a product.”
11. “My kids can’t eat awards.”
12. “If you continue to work hard, let that be the fuel to your fire.”
13. “One night I’ll be in Los Angeles and it’ll be a Latin crowd, and then another night I’ll go to Fresno and it’ll be an all-black crowd. To me, that’s the beauty of the music.”
14. “I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave.”
15. “This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.”
16. “The people in Cuba, they know what I stand for, and there’s a lot of people in Cuba that stand for the same. But they can’t say it.”
17. “I feel like I’ve been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn’t.”
18. “When I get in the studio the idea is just to work and bang out as many as I can.”
19. “I work hard. But I play hard, too.”
20. “I’m in the major league now.”
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