Beyond The Story Quotes

“I have to face the person I was
back then, I can’t run away from my old self (RM)”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“These seven strangers had come from all over the country to Seoul and become each other’s family. Inside the most commercial system of the Korean music industry, where incredible amounts of capital, human resources, marketing, and technology converge, BTS—ironically enough—found a family in each other.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“______I like my old self too. It’s because I went through all that that I’m the person I am today.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“Looking back from now...i wonder how i managed to stand (RM)”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“Maybe I made a mistake yesterday, but yesterday’s me is still me. Today, I am who I am with all my faults and my mistakes. Tomorrow, I might be a tiny bit wiser, and that’ll be me too. These faults and mistakes are what I am, making up the brightest stars in the constellation of my life. I have to come to love myself for who I am, for who I was, and for who I hope to become. [RM, ch. 5, BTS' first UN speech]”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“It feels really empty when someone you used to argue with isn’t there. (V)”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“______The members were just good people. Very good people …”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“SUGA is a bit stoic and would say things simply and firmly, but then he would also come up to me and say things like, “I hope you work hard and do well…” I couldn’t not like the hyungs, and that’s how I became interested in their music.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“It was a complete rejection of genre norms in Korea’s idol industry, where every frame of every video was perfectly produced for public consumption. BTS members were not just idols. They were rappers who released mixtapes and YouTubers who gave tutorials on music production and dance.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“Even in the most liberal of countries and cultures, it is not easy for a pre-debut trainee to publicly voice his complaints about the label’s CEO. And Korea is a country where idol groups cannot be launched without significant capital, time, and planning know-how. In spite of this, Bang Si-Hyuk had the members write their own blog posts and publicly share their thoughts and feelings as trainees alongside their mixtapes and journal entries.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“Jin and RM went as far as to have a serious conversation about it at one point. Jin says: ________The both of us were in agreement that the team had to go up. 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

“Jung Kook says: ______I think we got to where we were because we met the right era and the right people.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“Their cohesiveness went beyond sincere conversations, spilling over to every aspect of their lives.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“The Western media began comparing ARMY to Beatlemania, the fandom of the Beatles. ARMY was so sensational, Western journalists had to go all the way back to the Beatles to come up with an equivalent comparison.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“For SUGA, who was beginning to meet a future that had no answer sheet, the AMAs were when his anxiety had fully become reality: ________The gap between the ideal and reality was the hardest. Usually, the ideal is so high, and in most cases, you suffer because reality can’t keep up with it. But we were the opposite. It was like … the ideal was beating up my reality?”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“SUGA explains what was behind the lyrics of “Born Singer”: ______I remember in the week after we debuted, Bang Si-Hyuk said, “We should make a record of how we feel right now,” “We should make it into a song.” He said that, as time went by, we wouldn’t remember these emotions. So when we were at the broadcasting station, I wrote down the lyrics on a notepad.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“I started to try and go with the flow. If I wanted to practice singing, I practiced singing, if I wanted to play a game, I played. When I had nothing on my schedule, I ate if I wanted to, and if I didn’t, I went the whole day without eating. The people who know me are amazed by it. Asking how I can concentrate so much on something without complaining. And then I reply, “I think it’s possible because I’m living without any thought at all. [Jin, ch. 5]”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“Jim”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“There may be moments where we don't quite connect, but we've always overcome that through communication that I'm just too blessed to have met them in this life.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“SUGA had become the kind of person who enjoyed indulging in quiet days doing ordinary things with other members.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“INTRO: We're Now Going to Progress to Some Steps”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“If God indeed existed, clearly BTS were blessed onstage-or more precisely, through determination and effort, they had flown as high as they could fly and touched the face of the divine.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“But to always be grateful for what I've been given is my motto and personal vibe, so whether I'm making music with BTS or going to the UN, I try to study up on my responsibilities as much as I possibly can on my level. I do have a sense of mission about my work, in the end.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“I felt like we'd been outsiders or outliers until then, but now it felt, not like we were in the mainstream necessarily, but we were being welcomed more.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“The UN presentation was an example of how BTS might use their influence for positive purposes. On this, SUGA says:
-It's a lot of pressure to speak for the youth of the whole world. How could we possibly do that? We also live very differently from the great majority of youth around the globe. I hadn't thought about climate change or the environment a lot, my thoughts were just a vague, 'Oh, technology will solve that someday.' But I learned these were very serious problems. Then wouldn't I be able to help people become more familiar with them...So if people can get even a little more interested in these issues through us, didn't our fame make it our responsibility to take that on?”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“BTS no longer needed any adjectives or other qualifiers to be identified, the juxtaposition of the three letters of their name being powerful enough now.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“As the lyrics show, BTS knew that even if they were to come down from their height, they knew how to land and not fall. This was the result of resilience and hope earned through coming through countless struggles.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“The UN presentation was an example of how BTS might use their influence for positive purposes On this, SUGA says:
It's a lot of pressure to speak for the youth of the whole world. How could we possibly do that? We also live very differently from the great majority of youth around the globe. I hadn't thought about climate change or the environment a lot my, my thoughts were just a vague, 'Oh, technology will solve that someday.' But I learned these were very serious problems...Then wouldn't I be able to help people bec”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“It was a lot of pressure to be honest (laughs). A great experience, and it's not like you get to stand at that podium just because you want to. I was mostly thinking, 'My thoughts could just be pretty ordinary, is it right for me to take this opportunity just because it's given to me?”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“He was already a legend but still doing all this for us...That positivity was so overwhelming. And since he has so much more seniority in the music industry, we learned a lot from him. Things like, what attitude to have as artists when approaching fans. He's a great singer, of course, but it was also the way he was onstage and how he felt toward the members of his band that was so awesome.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS