Top 42 Quotes & Sayings by Juan Gabriel
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Mexican musician Juan Gabriel.
Last updated on December 25, 2024.
They say fame is important and that maintaining your fame is even more important. But to me, the most important thing is to deserve the respect of your fans.
I enjoy every moment because I believe that once we die, that's it. We're not coming back.
Money can be taken away from you, by the IRS or by pistol. That's why I always measure riches in terms of wisdom. No one can ever take from you what you know.
Art is feminine.
When I was very young, I sold the rights to my work... through 2000.
The artist knows how to sing, not how to count.
I'm a person who, when I set out to write, I write. It's just like when you set out to eat, you eat, or when you set out to sleep, you sleep. I don't do somersaults to write something. I just do it.
Let others worry about their own lives, and let the rest of us live.
I think, today, television is asking too many loaded questions, pushing further for ratings.
Work is my best friend.
Art is feminine... Look, if you're handsome and young and beautiful, well, people are always going to say that you're gay.
To transcend and be yourself... I have no reason to tell you, and others, something that is not of interest to you.
There are times when I'm really happy and I write something really sad, and vice versa.
People who know Mexico know me because I'm so much a part of Mexico.
Mexico is a very mom-centered culture. You'll find stores open on Father's Day, but never on Mother's Day. For us, mothers are very important.
Since I was sent to an orphanage, and I saw very little of my mother, I can counsel mothers that you shouldn't abandon your children. Before you bring a child into the world, think deeply about things, so that they lack absolutely nothing, least of all love.
What I say is what I feel, whether anyone likes it or not.
Lovers come back. Styles come back. But time? It never comes back.
You don't ask about what can be seen.
I think I am an artist. I think I am Juan Gabriel, who has given so much with my songs.
There are no rules when I compose songs.
I compose songs with a lot of simplicity because my school has been the streets, and people have been my books.
My thoughts, my feelings, my spirit, they are all in Spanish.
I've learned during my life that if I am in hell, I make my own glory. I've also been in glory, and perhaps I've made my own hell, but I certainly don't take anyone down with me.
Everyone who gave me food, who took away my hunger, inspired me to compose. They told me their stories, and I had no other way to console them than with a piece of music, and that is how I learned. I did not resolve their problems with my songs, but I created a moment of release.
Someone who's passed through the circumstances that I have has to make the decision either to be a good person or a bad person, and I decide to become better at every opportunity.
Mexico is known throughout the world thanks to mariachi.
As Juan Gabriel, music is my religion, and mariachi is my devotion. And my songs are my prayers.
American music has infiltrated the entire world enough as it is. Mexican music must be defended with vigilance.
When I have the opportunity to work, I organize a whole party - like what you perhaps saw at the Grammys.
My mother didn't know what to do with me.
I don't believe in anything, only in myself, but I respect all people who believe in something.
The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.
When I was 15, all I knew was that I had to be somebody and that I could be somebody. So I exploited the only thing I knew, which was singing and songwriting.
I was also surprised by the alacrity and dedication we devote to the damaging exercise of remembering, which after all brings nothing good and serves only to hinder our normal functioning, like those bags of sand athletes tie around their calves for training.
Art itself is female - it is full of graciousness, cadence, color, rhythm. It's full of love and grace.
Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather sympathy we learn to feel for the pain of others.
There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.
The most wonderful thing in life is to do something for a child because they're children for such a short time. We can't allow ourselves to let them live a miserable childhood.
I don't believe in competing, because there's room for everyone. You have to compete with yourself, because your duty to grow as a human being and keeping your humility is much more important than your music career. You can get money, women, travels, but all that's an illusion.
I have a tendency to trust translators, mainly because nobody does it for the money.
Adulthood brings with it a pernicious illusion of control.
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