Bad Bunny Quotes

Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.

The first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat.

I grew up listening to hits, and if I write something I feel, I think that's pretty mass appeal. I'm not very elitist with music. Love is universal; a great melody is universal; it goes around the world; it's not just American. A great song can touch the world.

Brazilian music has been a part of almost every record I've done, and I'd eventually like to record an entire album of Brazilian music.

We took dancehall and hip-hop and mixed it in the middle. I knew we had something. I thought, 'This sound is Puerto Rican sound.'

I came up playing in both punk rock bands and hip-hop bands, and I found a more universal way of reaching people, especially with music that has a message to it.

I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova. It's very warm-sounding to me - lush and simple. I like that.

I love hip-hop, R&B, techno and Latin.

For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play if would be Brazilian.

This was during a period when I was producing Brazil '66 records and got infected by Brazilian music.

I believe that true art is universal in its appeal.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.

Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models.

To me, music is entertainment - what else can it be? In fact, it's the only language I know of that's universal.

The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues.

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.

My interested in Brazilian music stemmed from wanting to find a musical identity other than the salsa and meringue that I was inundated with in Venezuela as a child.

My music is really fun music, with some pan-African and pan-American influences.

To all the musicians, to the Academy, with all due respect, reggaeton is part of our Latin culture. And its representing as much as any other genre at the worldwide level.

I love Calle 13 - they are Puerto Rican; some songs sound like Reggaeton, but it's not Reggaeton; it's good urban music.

The Gregory Isaacs feel is universal, trying to uplift who I can uplift. I sing music on a worldwide basis. That is made to be accepted in thy sight.

I love bossa nova. It's the most beautiful genre of music in the world.

The thing I stress to my fans is that I've been making big, universally friendly-type music for a long time now. I never really made underground music.

For me, I love Marc Anthony a lot. He's one of my dad's favorite artists, and I listened to him a lot growing up.