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 art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.
It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R&B this-or-that, don't have to do anything by default.
To write simply is as difficult as to be good.
Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.
And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
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