Quotes by Eric Nam - Page 2

I was part of the Atlanta Boy Choir probably like fourth and fifth grade. I personally didn't enjoy the type of music that we were doing. I was more into like whatever was on Disney Channel and Nickelodeon.
Eric Nam /
Atlanta
Choir
Fifth
Fourth
Nickelodeon
Type
Music Doing More
Channel
Disney
Grade
Personally
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I am so excited for where and what K-pop is doing and how it's growing. In the music industry it's not a trend, it's not a quick 'oh this is cool for a minute,' this is a full genre, which is exciting and cool.
Eric Nam /
Excited
Genre
Music Industry
Minute
Quick
Trend
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I think representation is something that's absolutely needed. I felt like with K-pop being so hot, we could leverage that to potentially do something bigger with music in the States that people could latch onto.
Eric Nam /
Bigger
Needed
Representation
Absolutely
Leverage
Onto
Potentially
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Korean, yes, I am now fluent in Korean. I was not always. When I got to Korea, I was constantly put on TV shows not knowing what was going on. So that forced me to learn Korean so I could stop looking like an idiot.
Eric Nam /
Fluent
Not Knowing
Tv Shows
Tv
Constantly
Always Me I Am
Me I Am Always
Forced
Yes
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I had always wanted to pursue music. It was always a dream, but it was always a dream in the sense of, when you're young, 'I want to be president' or 'I want to be an astronaut and fly to Mars.' That's what it was to me.
Eric Nam /
Astronaut
Mars
Pursue
Music Fly Me
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My parents, or Asian parents in general, they're like, 'You should be a doctor, a lawyer, or a banker' - all that's laid out. As a kid that's what I bought into, which is why I ended up going the corporate route initially.
Eric Nam /
Asian
Corporate
Doctor Lawyer Parents
Banker
Initially
Laid
Route
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I'd love to do some collabs or music with Latin artists and in Latin America - we're working on it! I just really love Latin America and the language, culture, foods, people, and it's a place I grew up visiting pretty often.
Eric Nam /
Latin
Latin America
Visiting
Love Music Culture
Artists
Foods
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I'm the type of person that if I feel strongly about something and if I really want to do something, I'm just gonna do it. And if it works out, amazing, and it's like 'I told you so,' but if it doesn't work out, that's fine.
Eric Nam /
Amazing
Fine
Type
Work Out
Works
Strongly
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When I first toured North America, everyone was saying that it was working because there is such as a solid Korean fan base here. The truth is, that is less than five per cent of the audience, which is mixed of all backgrounds.
Eric Nam /
Backgrounds
North America
Truth Is
Base
Fan
Cent
Fan Base
Per
Solid
Mixed
North
Toured
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I think there are probably ghosts in the world. I have not seen one but I feel like I felt the presence of one. In Korea there's been a superstition that ghosts love music, so they're always in a studio or a dance-training place.
Eric Nam /
Love Music World
Seen
Ghosts
Presence
Studio
Superstition
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Traveling has been a really big part of my upbringing and I've been fortunate enough to travel for different reasons. I'd like to think that it has had an impact on my character and personality, which ultimately affects my music.
Eric Nam /
Travel
Character
Fortunate
Impact
Upbringing
Affects
Big Part
Different Reasons
Reasons
Ultimately
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A lot of my peers, be seniors or juniors, they'll text me or they'll call me and they'll say, 'Thank you for doing the music that you do because it pushes the genre forward in different ways.' It's a very rewarding thing to hear.
Eric Nam /
Thank You
Different Ways
Genre
Juniors
Peers
Music Me Doing
Call
Forward
Hear
Pushes
Rewarding
Seniors
Text
Ways
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I learned Spanish as my second language from middle school through high school. I grew up volunteering at homeless shelters and tutoring kids of Latin immigrants in Atlanta, who didn't speak any English. That prepared me for when I traveled.
Eric Nam /
Atlanta
Grew
High School
Homeless
Immigrants
Latin
Middle
Middle School
Prepared
School
Traveled
English
High
Learned
Second
Shelters
Spanish
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There was a point when dancing to music became cheesy after the boy band era of NSync and Backstreet Boys, but there were always those who craved that kind of visual satisfaction. K-Pop really filled that void, because it's so geared to spectacle.
Eric Nam /
Backstreet
Cheesy
Filled
Satisfaction
Void
Visual
Geared
Spectacle
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When you first make money, you're just excited that you have it and just buy things on a whim. You don't really think about the implications that taxes have, because when you owe money, all of a sudden all of the money in your account - it's gone!
Eric Nam /
Implications
Taxes
Whim
Account
Buy
Owe
Sudden
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I want to position myself as a great singer/songwriter in Korea, then jump off that into different markets. South-east Asia, China, Japan - I've done nothing even though I speak four languages - English, Korean, Spanish, and a little bit of Mandarin.
Eric Nam /
Asia
China
Japan
Little Bit
Position
English
Jump
Markets
Spanish
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I think up until the 'Honestly' album it was very much label-company lead, of 'this is a sound that we need, this is what you need to do. You need to do ballads, you need to do a million different types of love songs,' and I hate ballads and I hate love songs.
Eric Nam /
Ballads
Hate
Honestly
Sound
Album
Different Types
Love Songs
Million
Types
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I thought it would be so cool to be a musician, but I always thought it was impossible, because I would never be accepted in mainstream media. The fact that I'm able to tour North America and around the world is an incredible blessing, and I am thankful every time I do it.
Eric Nam /
Thankful
Cool
Accepted
America
Blessing
Impossible
Mainstream
Mainstream Media
Media
Musician
North America
Every Time
Fact
North
Tour
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The coolest thing for me now is when I'm in the States and I meet other Asian-Americans who are like, 'Dude, thank you so much for doing what you do. I love your music, I love whatever. But whatever you do, we're gonna support you because there aren't many Asian faces doing music.'
Eric Nam /
Thank You
Asian
Faces
Love Music Me
Love Music Your
Coolest
Coolest Thing
Dude
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I don't know why I feel the need to try and do everything. But I kind of have this mentality that you live once, and I have a lot of things that I want to do and there's a lot of things that I want to try. So I have to at least give it a shot before I don't try at all or like, give up on things.
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Mentality
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Coming to Korea and becoming a singer, I always had two big goals personally. One was to be able to make it at some point so that I could do good things - I was always raised with an interest in social impact, philanthropy. The other thing was to be able to take my music and do it on a global scale.
Eric Nam /
Becoming
Good Things
Impact
Philanthropy
Raised
Good Music Always
Scale
Singer
Global
Personally
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Even within K-pop, there should be more representation. It's not just groups, and it's not just incredibly produced, highly choreographed pieces. There are vocalists, there's R&B, there's hip-hop, there are other types of people and voices. There's space for all of that to be shared and to be appreciated.
Eric Nam /
Space
Appreciated
Groups
Representation
Within
Space People More
Incredibly
Produced
Shared
Types
Voices
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One way I deal with stress is when I feel a certain way, I just do it. It's like, I want a hamburger, so I'm just going to eat a hamburger. I don't want to answer your phone call right now - I'm not going to answer your phone call. Just be able to say, 'This is how I feel. This is the way it is, deal with it.'
Eric Nam /
Able
Certain
Stress
Eat
Your Feel Way
Call
Certain Way
Deal
Phone
Hamburger
Just Be
Phone Call
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I had accepted a position as a business analyst at Deloitte Consulting in New York. But before I went into that workforce, I decided to take a year off and went to India to do a social enterprise fellowship. It wasn't the best fit, but that was where a TV show in Korea found me and invited me to first come perform.
Eric Nam /
New York
Business
Accepted
Consulting
Decided
Enterprise
Fellowship
Fit
Found
India
Invited
Position
Social
Workforce
Best Me New
Best Business Me
Tv
Analyst
Before
Show
Perform
Year
Off
Tv Show
York
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We recognize that there have been acts in the past that are Asian or Korean who tried to go, 'Hey, I'm a huge star in Korea, I'm a huge star in Asia so you guys need to respect me for being a huge star there.' But I don't know. As much as we may be big, we have to be very humble and start from the ground up in the States.
Eric Nam /
Asia
Hey
Acts
Huge Star
You Guys
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I feel like people have stereotypes and notions about Latin America that aren't necessarily accurate or aren't particularly positive. For me, Latin America is a place that I personally really love and enjoy visiting and going to, and I wanted to be able to show it in a light that was very different to an Asian, Korean viewer.
Eric Nam /
Accurate
Asian
Latin
Latin America
Visiting
Notions
Stereotypes
Viewer
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I think one thing I wish would be a little different, and it'll take time, is yes BLACKPINK, BTS, these teams are taking over the world and they're everywhere, but I think at a certain point we need to really push for other artists as well, and really help bring them up further, for this to be a sustainable industry, a sustainable genre.
Eric Nam /
Certain Point
Sustainable
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I think Korea is so focused on just the charts, and what's going to chart and what's not, and I'm sure it's like that way in the States as well, to a certain degree. But I enjoy working in the States a little bit more. Because it's more about making music that is the right sound and the right fit to me, not so much just chasing the charts.
Eric Nam /
Certain
Enjoy
Focused
Little Bit
Sound
States
Music Me Way
Sure
Bit
Certain Degree
Degree
Working
Making
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For the first four or five years I was in Korea, I took a lot of direction from my management and label in terms of what people want. I found myself trying to fit into that thing I never felt comfortable with because the critique I got was that I was too American, and too sophisticated and polished in terms of my musicality and it won't sell.
Eric Nam /
Critique
Management
Musicality
Polished
Sophisticated
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