Pitbull Quotations

I work hard. But I play hard, too.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I look at this game from a different perspective.

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

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.

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.

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

As Americans, which I suffer from myself, we have ADD.

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

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

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

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

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 don't agree when the USA, that lives by a constitution, says, OK, just because you look this way, we're going to ask you for your documentation, or you gotta go back to your country.

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

This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.

Music to me is something I did as a hobby.

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

I'm so passionate about making good music.

The thing with me and endorsements is it's harder for me to get endorsements because of the simple fact that I want in.

Don't just give me an advance. I want a percentage.

If you look at Cuba what's the benefit in being in Cuba? Really? It's almost like being in prison. You can't think. You can't have your own opinions. You have no opportunity. You just gotta live life the way you were born into it.

My whole thing is I don't take from Castro being an intelligent man as long as he is doing the thing that needs to be done. But the thing is at the end of the day you're not bettering the island. You're only making it worse. So, for me it's just making sure that people have the right to speak their minds and have an opportunity in life to better their life.

I've always had goals, always had visions, always had a plan, always been very strategic.

If you look at any movement Hip Hop would be the most influential in the last maybe 15, 20 years.

I'm just here to open up doors for all these other cats out here that are trying to do the same thing really.

Simplicity is the key to success.

There's always something going on, and people need that 45-minute-to-an-hour-and-15-minute break, where they just escape and not worry about bills, health care and God knows what. That, to me, is when you're making great music: when people can just forget about what's going on.

Everything is humble and positive energy.

You cant get much whiter than me.

Humor is everything. Everything. Usually the negatives turned out to be the most positive for me. In the music industry, any other artist would have looked at the situation I was in and thought, "Oh man, this is not for me." I looked at it more like Darwin exploring the Galápagos Islands - survival of the fittest.

Punish the deed, not the breed.

I started doing shows in places that I couldn't pronounce, didn't know existed, and I've seen people that didn't speak English or Spanish rapping to every lyric and singing to every hook. I said, "This is the type of music that I want to do."

Patience, passion and perseverance equals success.

My whole thing is just being a part of good music.

I make music with no boundaries.

I can be a part of everything. Every movement.

Show the World where you're from, show the World we are one...

I'm sharp. What the street taught me how to do is how to hustle. How to make something out of nothing.

I'm not a Reggaeton artist and I'm not a Crunk artist either.

I don't understand the word 'lose', I only understand the word 'learn'

Now look at the crowd. We’ve got everybody here tonight: Black, white, Asian, Latinos—and guess what? President Obama says we can all stay! God Bless America!

There's no success without failure and no winning without losing.

One thing that's never gonna go, you know, go sour is good music.

Life is to live it, not to let it live you.

This is the truth: I'm into sales. I love deals. I'm definitely a sucker for steals.

Pretty soon I think you'll have Republicans, Democrats and Hip Hop as a party.

Everyday above ground is a great day, remember that.

Don't be afraid to lose. Listen. And always invest in yourself.