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.
Because the writer must be a participant in the scene, while he's writing it β or at least taping it, or even sketching it. Or all three. Probably the closest analogy to the ideal would be a film director/producer who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least a main character.
Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed, an architectural one, where it is constructed, and finally a textile one, where it is woven.
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.
I remember the Chillicothe ballplayers grappling the Long Island ball players in a sixteen-inning game ended by darkness. And the shoulders of the Chillicothe players were a red smoke against the sundown and the shoulders of the Rock Island players were a yellow smoke against the sundown. And the umpire's voice was hoarse calling balls and strikes and outs and the umpire's throat fought in the dust for a song.
When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.
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