Andy Mineo Quotes

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Andy Mineo

Profession : Musician

Birth : April 17, 1988

Technology has opened up the music business 100-fold and provided space for all kinds of new faces.

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The older I get, the more I desire simplicity.

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Being a Christian and seeing that white evangelical Christians were primarily the people who put guys like Donald Trump into office made my entire world explode.

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I'm my biggest problem; I'm the thing that stops me most from doing what I need to do to be successful or to achieve success in whatever area of life.

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Hopefully, at the end of all this, my music is going to be used as a tool to help people have meaningful conversations and meaningful relationships with themselves and with other people and with God.

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'Hear My Heart' was constructed with the deaf in mind. I wanted a bass line that felt like a heartbeat. I wanted to be able to touch the speakers and feel a clear sense of rhythm.

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A lot of my friends - I am the only white person in their circle. Being able to hear other perspectives besides the white conservative approach has really given me a perspective that I want to share and challenge people to think about.

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I was wondering if any of my faith was real at all, and I started to let go of a lot of things that I had learned and say, 'Maybe I just need to start over entirely with what I have learned about my faith.' And that's what I did.

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I think in today's society we are dealing with an epidemic of fatherless homes. We're turning everywhere else for people to be fathered.

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I searched YouTube for 'deaf music videos' and watched them with the sound muted. I noticed that though you could understand the words being signed, the sense of rhythm was lost. That's when I had the idea to create a video where you could see the sounds you couldn't hear.

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Hip-hop has always been about keeping it authentic and being authentically you. That is what I try to do in my music and when I speak about the Bible.

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I started to have almost a realization that a lot of the evangelical leaders I looked up to and found hope in - I started realizing a lot of them just weren't the people I thought they were.

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You always hear people say, 'I just want to live comfortably.' And I'm like, 'What does that mean?'

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I think, for a while, my music was exclusively for those who shared my beliefs. But I realized I was perpetuating the bubble that I was living in instead of inviting people into my world.

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I don't like calling it Christian rap. Titles are so limiting. It's hip-hop. I'm a rapper.

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I feel like God's given me a gift that I want to steward and share with the world.

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I'm not going to degrade women, and that's very anti-hip-hop.

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Music is such a powerful tool, and there are so many people who need love and encouragement and hope.

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Going to church and stuff was just something I did with my mom.

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It's really tough to be an active member of your church when you travel so much, but that's the stuff that keeps you going.

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