When you're a ranchera singer, you represent your country. It's a God-given gift.
Vicente FernandezRead
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.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes that true artistry comes from lived experiences and authenticity.
Vicente Fernandez highlights the importance of personal experiences in conveying the essence of ranchera music. He suggests that while many singers may have beautiful voices, those who have actually lived the life of ranchers bring a deeper level of authenticity and emotion to their performances, which cannot be replicated by mere talent alone.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about what makes art authentic during a workshop.
When you're a ranchera singer, you represent your country. It's a God-given gift.
Listen to the great guitarists of the Fifties. They didn't do that nasty sort of industrial distortion. They played musical compositions as solos - Scotty Moore, Cliff Gallup, Django Reinhardt. There wasn't a bad note in any of those solos. I listened to that and stayed with those rules.
I try all night to play a pretty note.
Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell.
When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf-life in some corner on an out-of-the-way library somehwere in Reykjavik, Valladolid or Vancouver.
I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence.
Movie-wise, there is nothing I wouldn't do again. It's not possible to make one perfect movie every time.
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