Top 40 Luis Fonsi Quotes

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

I talk bilingual.

I sang in a group for four years, and you just kind of get used to it. You don’t really think about being by yourself.

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.

When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album.

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.

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

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

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

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

My genre is the pop ballad with a touch of R&B.

The transition to the United States was very interesting. I learned the language. I kind of got into the R&B. I’m a huge fan of the ’80s, Journey and all that fun stuff. But when I moved to Orlando, it was more like Boyz II Men.

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

It’s crazy how the world evolves and the audience gives you an opportunity to really grow and live out your dreams.

‘Despacito’ started with a melody hook that I had with my guitar only. The beat for this track came after I wrote the lyrics, which I wrote as if I was writing a ballad.

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 am very optimistic, and I always think positive, but within reason and never getting too far ahead of the game.

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

I never like to get ahead of myself. I’m not one of those people that do that.

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

‘Despacito’ was a song that, from the time I started writing it, I felt that its hook was really catchy and powerful but at the same time very simple.

When you’re singing about love stories, which is most of my songs, it’s good to have a lot of information and to have a different point of view.

Each album always has its own sound.

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.

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.

Part of our job as quote-unquote ‘celebrities’ is that we can gather people around things that are important. I think it should be a requisite – there should be a clause in the contract that you have to give back.

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

I block out a good amount of time – could be 6 or 8 months – and I just write. I do a lot of traveling, and I do a lot of co-writing with different writers just to start getting ideas out and kind of get a little bit of direction as far as where I’m going to go with the album.

It’s important to stay current and fresh.

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

It doesn’t matter where we’re from, we all have to stick together and help each other out as performers and as human beings.

I’ve learned and grown as a songwriter.

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

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 don’t know what happens at radio as far as what is that X factor that makes a song click and have people get connected to it when it’s in another language.

It’s always morning for me until 4 in the afternoon.

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

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

The beautiful thing about it is that ‘Despacito’ is not really an English crossover. It was just another song that the world made a crossover. I didn’t really push it; it just kinda went there.