Quotes by Kirstin Maldonado - Page 2

The first artist that did it for me with just production was James Blake... I was just blown away... I feel like James Blake kind of was the one that introduced me into that world.
Kirstin Maldonado /
Artist
Blake
Blown Away
World Me Feel
Blown
Introduced
James
Production
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When I was a kid, I was obsessed with Shania Twain. I would always go sing the song 'Honey I'm Home.' I was, like, 12, and I'm singing about coming home from work and PMS and stuff.
Kirstin Maldonado /
Coming Home
Honey
Work Home Always
Twain
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I feel like a lot of like the old-timey Christmas songs, the classics, a lot of it is very vocal. A lot of harmonies and, like, crooners, it puts you in that holiday spirit, I feel like.
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Holiday
Vocal
Classics
Harmonies
Puts
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When Pentatonix started, my whole vision of what I thought my life was gonna be completely changed - in a great way, obviously. I never thought that I would have the confidence to do this.
Kirstin Maldonado /
Great Way
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I love being able to fulfill such a huge and special part of myself with Pentatonix. But there is still so much more to me that, honestly, people don't get to see because we're in a group.
Kirstin Maldonado /
Love Myself Me
Fulfill
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A bully is going to be a bully, and you have to stand up for yourself. You can't expect everyone else is going to come and run to your aid. You have to stand your ground; that's very important.
Kirstin Maldonado /
Bully
Yourself Your Important
Aid
Everyone Else
Expect
Ground
Stand Up
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My favorite thing to hear is when people will come up and be like, 'I started an a capella group at my school!' or 'I got my best friend, and we wanted to sing, too!' And then they start groups.
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Best Friend
Favorite Thing
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I've learned that even just as an individual, regardless of who I am, and regardless of who anyone is, to really be true to yourself and your own self expression and really use your voice for that.
Kirstin Maldonado /
I Am Yourself Your
Be True
Regardless
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We have a really incredible fan base... they're... the ones that are rooting for us and buying the music and streaming it. They're just really, really amazing... and we're just so thankful for them.
Kirstin Maldonado /
Thankful
Buying
Streaming
Base
Fan Base
Rooting
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The energy that a crowd gives you is so amazing and so fun because when the crowd's having fun, it makes us even more excited, and it feels like we're all having fun together. It's like a big party.
Kirstin Maldonado /
Having Fun
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We always try to make every song we do sound like a track. It's vocal, but we want it to be really full so no one really can even know if it's a cappella. It's not like it's missing anything, per se.
Kirstin Maldonado /
Missing
Vocal
Cappella
Per
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It is based off the pentatonic scale, which is a five-note scale in music. And there are five of us. We were going to be The Pentatonix, but we dropped the 'The' and added an 'x' to try and be cooler.
Kirstin Maldonado /
Added
Scale
Cooler
Dropped
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I loved performing and knew it was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life, that regardless of monetary success, I wanted to make an impact while doing what I loved and that would be successful for me.
Kirstin Maldonado /
Impact
Monetary
Performing
Successful
Life Success Me
Loved
Rest
Regardless
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I would definitely go back to 'Kinky Boots' because that family, I think, is so wonderful and incredible, and my role and my part were just so fun to play. But I would definitely love to do other shows as well.
Kirstin Maldonado /
Boots
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What better way is there to raise money for such an important organization like Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS than by celebrating all types of bodies, all types of relationships, and just acceptance overall?
Kirstin Maldonado /
Acceptance
Aids
Broadway
Money Better Important
Fights
Better Way
Celebrating
Overall
Types
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Even before Pentatonix, I always thought that I would be out here in New York doing Broadway and doing musical theater. That was what gave me the passion for music in the first place, so it's been really, really, cool.
Kirstin Maldonado /
Broadway
Musical Theater
Cool Music Always
First Place
Out Here
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I think, now that I've been writing songs in general, whether it's for the group or for me, I definitely feel like I got a little trigger happy, because it was so exciting to have production and create and put a lot in there.
Kirstin Maldonado /
Me Feel Happy
Trigger
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I think people are always going to say things about you or disapprove of your relationships or your ideals or your beliefs or something, but I think you have to stand up and stay strong in who you are and not let it affect you.
Kirstin Maldonado /
Ideals
Stay Strong
Always Your People
Affect
Beliefs
Disapprove
People Stand Stand Up
People Stand Always
Relationships
Stand Up
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I think it's cool to do a summer outdoor show because, growing up, like, those were always the shows and the concerts that I would get to see, where I would be sitting on the grass with my friends and hanging out, and it was such a moment.
Kirstin Maldonado /
Concerts
Grass
Hanging
Outdoor
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Literally, when the pilot came out for 'Glee,' I think we had a watching party or something. We were all seniors, and everyone all of a sudden in the show choir were so excited. We were like, 'This show is awesome. It's so cool. This is exactly us.'
Kirstin Maldonado /
Choir
Glee
Awesome
Pilot
Seniors
Sudden
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Our album stuff, we bring it to our producer to help us finesse. But anything that's been on YouTube and a lot of the stuff that's been on the album, too, it started from us just sitting around in a circle and jamming it and finding where the parts fit.
Kirstin Maldonado /
Sitting
Youtube
Album
Circle
Finding
Jamming
Producer
Parts
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It's really, really cool that we've been able to have these opportunities to surround ourselves with these people because they're brilliant. Like, Dolly Parton is legendary, and she's maybe the nicest person I've ever met in my entire life and, like, amazing.
Kirstin Maldonado /
Legendary
Surround
Dolly Parton
Entire Life
Nicest
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It depends on the arrangement. It could take 3 hours, it could take 3 days, it could take a week. 'Thrift Shop' took one arrangement session. We did it all in a circle that day. 'Evolution of Music' and 'Evolution of Beyonce' took a bunch of different sessions.
Kirstin Maldonado /
Beyonce
Session
Thrift
Arrangement
Circle
Shop
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Success is not defined by money or status, necessarily, but by how many people you've impacted and how fulfilled you feel with your decisions. If you can garner all of these things, then more power and success to you, but all in all, you must feel happy and satisfied with what you personally have put out into the world.
Kirstin Maldonado /
Happy
Success
Money
Defined
Fulfilled
Satisfied
World
Things
Decisions
Feel
More
Power Money World
Then
Out
Success Power Money
How
Garner
Must
How Many People
Impacted
Put
Necessarily
More Power
Personally
Status
Success Is
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I feel like 2013 was one giant snowball of me being confused with my place in life and within the group. A lot of it was self-confidence issues, a lot of outside issues, and a lot of me questioning the future of what I was doing. And my mistake was letting all that influence me so that I wasn't the best I could be in life!
Kirstin Maldonado /
Confused
Questioning
Self Confidence
Snowball
Life Best Future
Giant
Letting
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I'm always trying to tell fans to love themselves. I see them going through a ton of hardships on Twitter and being bullied. It's really important and easier said than done to take care of yourself. A lot of people put themselves out for others and don't really think about mending themselves. Sometimes, they get a little lost that way.
Kirstin Maldonado /
Mending
Love Yourself Care
Hardships
Ton
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