J Balvin Quotes

I really enjoy being with the people I play with. I enjoy their company. I love the crew, the band - we just move through the country like an army. I always feel very grateful to be up there. There aren't any bad nights anymore unless I'm singing bad, but then the band will carry me. And if they're playing bad, I will carry them..

All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together.

People forget that keeping a band together is hard; man, it's really hard. All the cliches apply about living in each other's pockets; of it being a relationship, a marriage, a family.

When you're in a band, you're just trying to do whatever you can to keep your band together. You're thinking very inwardly, very myopic.

The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.

I pray and try every day to be a better actor.

When we get together and rehearse, which is always living with each other, we always talk about what would make it better, what would mean more, what would say more. So we're always improving and growing.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

I've always just given myself to the band, if you know what I mean, and been busy with that.

I had dance training from a very young age, 3 or 4... It taught me how to present myself, about preparation and working in an ensemble, and it's something that carries with me to this day.

But, you know, we spent two years putting our act together.

There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.

My band is so dedicated, everybody works very hard. The No. 1 priority is the show, and it's pretty cool because we all pull together, and it's fun. It's like being on a sports team or something.

I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together.

I met all these important people and did all these stories, but I always had such excellent producers and assistants. I could show up to interview a world leader or a criminal and they would have things so well prepared anyone could have done it. It wasn't about 'me,' it was about 'us.'

There is no substitute for jamming and getting to know each other on the road.

If you are gonna participate in a band, you've got to be a band member in good standing, and you've got to think about the needs of the whole.

If you want me to work with you, then come with an idea. Come with music.

Like yes, I was part of a launch of an entire cable television network and we all worked so hard getting prepared for it and rehearsed so many times.

You have to look at areas you want to get better at, both in yourself and as a team.

Above and beyond anything, we didn't have lives outside of the band.

When you're in a band, you're all in it together. You're always available. You're always available for the albums; you're always available for the tours. There's no question of that.

I write songs, but the guys play on them, they have opinions on them, and we tour together and spend all our time together.

For me, you have to do as much work as you can beforehand and, once you get on stage or set, throw it out the window because you need to be collaborative. You shouldn't have too many ideas about where it goes before you get into the room with the director and other actors.

If we weren't in this band, some of us wouldn't be playing at all. You have tiffs with someone when he has smelly feet in the touring van, but we all respect each other as friends first.