Jon Secada famous quotes

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A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set.
-- Jon Secada

#Strong #Real #Singing
I'm a big believer in education, period.
-- Jon Secada

#Education #Bigs #Periods
If there was any other place I would live, other than Miami, it would be California. It's beautiful. The weather is just gorgeous, I love being here, too.
-- Jon Secada

#Beautiful #Love Is #Weather
I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.
-- Jon Secada

#Teacher #Cutting #College
I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American.
-- Jon Secada

#Afros #Might #Cuban
If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.
-- Jon Secada

#Song #Honesty #Writing
It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense.
-- Jon Secada

#Wedding Day #Miami #Intense
I just lived it and did my own thing without looking over my shoulder. I think I'm very lucky, considering when I started everything, and the fact that I have a masters in music, and I've always worked in music, and that's what I wanted to do.
-- Jon Secada

#Thinking #Facts #Lucky
I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz.
-- Jon Secada

#Jazz #Bachelors #Masters
Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together.
-- Jon Secada

#Opportunity #College #Years
I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.
-- Jon Secada

#Community #Singing #Done
I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important.
-- Jon Secada

#Important #Language #Grew Up
For me, there's still a lot of room to grow; I'm just happy that I have so much more to give.
-- Jon Secada

#Giving #Rooms #Grows
And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.
-- Jon Secada

#Careers #Music Education #Backgrounds
This record has a lot of influences that I'd love to cover, like Marvin Gaye and Earth, Wind and Fire. Maybe I'll do some covers of my major influences during my live show.
-- Jon Secada

#Fire #Wind #Records

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