Beyond The Story Quotes

“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 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Idols by nature anyway,
They shush me and look down on me”
― 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Reality had other plans.”
― 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

“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

“Though he found incredible success, his triumph was overshadowed by fear.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“¡Cómo he conseguido conocer a gente así...! Puede que haya momentos en los que no conectemos del todo, pero siempre los hemos superado mediante la comunicación y me siento bendecido por haberles conocido en esta vida.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“BTS became the first Korean music artists to be on the cover of Time magazine’s global edition on October 22, 2018. Time praised BTS as next-generation leaders and interviewed them in an article titled “How BTS Is Taking Over the World.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“COVID-19 pandemic would make it impossible for “Inner Child” to be performed live for the fans. It was eventually performed online at the BTS MAP OF THE SOUL ON:E concerts October 10–11, 2020.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“In terms of its attempt to connect mainstream art with the avant-garde, the contemporary art project CONNECT, BTS by BTS and Big Hit Entertainment can also be understood in a similar fashion. This project, which transcends nationality, genre, and generations, brought world-famous artists and curators to feature pieces that extend into contemporary art the philosophy and message of the music of BTS, including “affirmation of diversity,” “connection,” and “communication.” Premiering in London on January 14, 2020, CONNECT, BTS was also shown in Berlin, Buenos Aires, New York City, and Seoul.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“BTS had been the first Korean artists to attend the Grammy Awards as nominees when they went the year previous in 2019, and in the 2020 ceremony, they performed onstage with Lil Nas X.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“A campaign supporting the global project “# ENDviolence,” started by UNICEF in 2013, which aims to create a safe world free of violence against children and young people. The donations collected through the “LOVE MYSELF” campaign were given to help children and young people who were the victims of violence, and were also used to exhort a systematic overhaul of regional-based violence prevention.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“Burn the Stage was released in March 2018 as a series of eight documentary episodes on YouTube, which were later compiled into the feature Burn the Stage: The Movie (including previously unreleased footage), which premiered simultaneously in more than seventy countries in November of the same year. The Burn the Stage series was followed by similar documentary and feature series that covered BTS’s tours and other major musical activities, including Bring the Soul (2019), Break the Silence (2020), and BTS Monuments: Beyond the Star (2023).”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“BANGTAN BOMB,” a subcategory on BTS’s official YouTube channel, BANGTANTV. The videos contained not only their onstage performances, but also candid footage of the members backstage, in the green room, and in other shooting locations.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“The Seoul performance was across two days (October 18–19, 2014), but presale tickets sold out immediately upon release, so an extra date was added on October 17.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“In July 2017, about four years after BTS’s debut, Big Hit Entertainment unveiled the group’s new brand identity and added a new meaning to their name. In addition to the original meaning of “Boys who protect teenagers from oppression and prejudice” in “Bulletproof Boy Scouts,” “Beyond The Scene” indicates the group’s mission to always aim for the horizon, reaching for their dreams without resigning themselves to reality.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“The two points are only about two kilometers apart and there is no need to enter any tunnels. Even in 2023, more than ten years since this incident, the cab ride would cost about 6,000 won on an ordinary taxi during the daytime.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“RM’s moniker since 2012 was initially “Rap Monster” until he changed it to “RM” on November 13, 2017, in the spirit of embracing a wider variety of music.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS