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.
The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of all limit; that (as flame bends to flame) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beauty or grandeur; to enshrine itself, as it were, in the highest forms of fancy, and to relieve the aching sense of pleasure by expressing it in the boldest manner.
I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would find that exciting. But I would. And I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.
Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.
I'm wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It's a real enjoyment.
I work for ABC. If the thing that ABC is paying me for is storytelling - not to make sure that a costume is exactly right or all those other things - then it is up to me to find the most creative space possible so that that function of my job can happen.
From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.
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