Quotes By Pitbull

Music to me is something I did as a hobby.

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.

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.

Every time I reach a new audience, that means I'm doing something right.

Any time I see anything moving onstage, I'm cautious about it.

I think of fans like a barbershop. I want that debate.

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.

I'm taking a lot of freestyle music and flipping it.

My owner is life and that's what I fight for.

Music is my hustle.

I make music with no boundaries.

If you continue to work hard, let that be the fuel to your fire.

In any country when you throw something in somebody's face, it's disrespectful.

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.

I look at this game from a different perspective.

I'm definitely someone who enjoys life and wakes up with a ball of energy.

This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.

I'm no longer an artist, I'm a business partner.

I'm in the major league now.

My kids can't eat awards.

I work hard. But I play hard, too.

I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.

When I get in the studio the idea is just to work and bang out as many as I can.

I'm here to entertain.

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.

I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave.

Look, Pitbull is a product.

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.

I like to keep my money at the end of the day.

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.