Beyond The Story Quotes

“Time is passing, I'm still standing here,
and people are putting all sorts of labels
on me .. I couldn't avoid any of that as
long as I lived, but maybe there was one
last part of me that only I could define.
And if that part joined another part that
even I nor anyone else could ever define,
then my yesterday and today can be
created from there.”
― Kim Namjoon

“It was really hard to respect the fact that we were all different people. I used to be very extreme and trapped in a black-and-white mindset. My immature mind would think, "Why is he thinking that way? Shouldn't a normal human being think this way?" And eventually I went beyond thinking, 'That guy is different from me,' to accepting, 'That person is just being themselves.' It did take a bit of time.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“I'd taken a taxi because I wasn't familiar with the subway lines, and the fee came out very high.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“Look at how idols these days go into acting, we'll let you become an actor eventually." That's how they convinced me. They were very persuasive.
-Jin”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“Reality had other plans.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“Dewey Finn (played by Jack Black), the main character in the movie School of Rock, is a nameless musician under false pretenses gets a job at an elementary school in place of a friend who is a licensed teacher. When he realizes how talented the students are, he tries to put them together into a rock band. The students, however, know nothing of rock music, and Dewey ends up teaching them the history of rock-and-roll during class instead of the usual curriculum.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“Its first teenage fans were now in their thirties, and as fandom culture developed over the years, the content and standards the fans demanded also became clearer.

Kalgunmu, or "razor-sharp group dancing," was such content. Fans wanted their favorite groups to create awe-inspiring moments of perfect synchronized dancing.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“The both of us were in agreement that the team had to go. But the difference between us was that I was wondering if we could pursue our happiness a little first and then think about what was going to happen, while he believed we had to give our all now for the sake of later happiness.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“Adjusting' seems to be the right word. Because once I entered the dorm, I realized, 'Ah, I guess this is how I should live from now.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“I still have no idea why, but we seriously only ever stuck with one another. And I think it must have been hard for other people to approach us, too. We were all clearly on edge because we were determined to do hip-hop, not meeting other people's eyes...”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“Jin also injected the team with a sense of calm.
There's steps to everything. Sometimes you have to climb slowly. And we knew that all the other people who succeeded climbed up slowly, little by little.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“However, some people—like B-Free—act as if they are judges at an audition, publicly passing judgment on idol groups' musical identities in spite of not having that authority.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“Idols by nature anyway,
They shush me and look down on me”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“BTS's music documents the journey of its members: from not knowing their own dreams, to understanding their ambitions, to fighting to make their goals a reality, and finally to developing their own perspectives on the way the public perceived them.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“Different people will respond differently to BTS's music, as musical taste is completely subjective. However, no one can deny that the BTS members filled their songs with their genuine emotions and experience from this time.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“Several years later, RM looks back on this moment.
It's exactly that, "The history of the struggle for recognition." We wanted to be recognized. To prove ourselves.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“For RM and the others, it was inevitable that they would seek out a reason for doing what they did. RM adds,
I looked up and studied so much about insults and hurts, and I got even more passionate. "Oh, I really have to do better." Do what better, I wasn't sure, but I'd already made my debut, and already got dissed, so I wanted to somehow do something that was within my scope, and really empty myself out.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“It was the perfect opportunity for RM to clarify his own thoughts as he struggled between his identities as a hip-hop artist and an idol.
—It was extremely important to me, having unloaded something like that. The hurt was still there, but [the interview] comforted my heart in some ways...Bad things have to happen for there to be good things. And I thought at the time, "Oh, something like that happened, but thanks to that, people are coming to reach out to us.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“BTS defined living not as "Not just being alive, but living my life," giving courage to themselves and their listeners.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“It's always darkest before dawn
Later on down the road, don't you ever forget the you of now”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“This vibe helped the entire team acclimatize to idol life. Jimin recalls how he felt:
RM and I talked a lot. We weren't really famous or anything, but we couldn't exactly spit on the streets without consequences at this point...And we were gradually building up a sense of responsibility to know the value of our work.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS