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.
I think it's good not to make demands on the reader too early. But as the poem goes on, I want the journey of the poem to lead into some interesting places.
Two types of films: those that employ the resources of the theater (actors, direction, etc...) and use the camera in order to reproduce; those that employ the resources of cinematography and use the camera to create
You prep, you prep, you prep. And on the day that you film, you let all of that go. I try to achieve emptiness as much as possible - the Zen thing - to let the deal come out of that nothing.
I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.
It was my father's hope, and it is ours, that the National Gallery would become not a static but a living institution, growing in usefulness and importance to artists, scholars and the general public.
I'm the oldest son of a crazy man, I'm in a cowboy band.
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