When you're a ranchera singer, you represent your country. It's a God-given gift.
Interpretation
Being a ranchera singer is both an honor and a responsibility to embody one's cultural identity.
Vicente Fernandez emphasizes the profound connection between the artist and their cultural heritage. As a ranchera singer, one not only entertains but also serves as a representative of their country, showcasing its values, traditions, and spirit through music. This quote reflects the idea that art can be a powerful expression of identity and pride.
In practice
A speech at a cultural festival celebrating Mexican heritage.
There are other singers of ranchera music who sing very beautifully, but you can tell from the way they sing that they never lived on a ranch. They never knew what it was to milk a cow, to birth a calf, to shoe a horse. I've lived all that.
Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.
A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for humanity. I am still plugging away and not the ghost of one so far, so it begins to look as though, unless I suddenly hit mid-season form in my eighties, humanity will remain a message short.
When we talk to somebody and we want to be nice or polite or show our more beautiful side, we try to use the best words that we know. This is what poets are doing. They are cleaning the words, they are inventing the sentiments, they are giving us a way to communicate.
I am part of a light, and it is the music. The Light fills my six senses: I see it, hear, feel, smell, touch and think. Thinking of it means my sixth sense. Particles of Light are written note. A bolt of lightning can be an entire sonata. A thousand balls of lightening is a concert.. For this concert I have created a Ball Lightning, which can be heard on the icy peaks of the Himalayas.
Designers take care of everything around us. Everything that is around us, this table, this chair, this lamp, this pen has been designed. All of these things, everything has been designed by somebody.
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