Vicente Fernandez Quotes

Vicente Fernandez

Profession : Singer

Birth : February 17, 1940

I abide to God's will and I feel that from up above, God and my parents have guided my career.

Vicente Fernandez

I've always said I got to where I am not by being a great singer, but by being stubborn, by being tenacious, by being pigheaded.

Vicente Fernandez

When you're a ranchera singer, you represent your country. It's a God-given gift.

Vicente Fernandez

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.

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For me, putting on my charro outfit is a matter of pride and it's a very big responsibility.

Vicente Fernandez

No one will ever be able to say, 'Ay, Chente, he's all washed up. He should have thrown in the towel years ago.'

Vicente Fernandez

Everybody who sings with me has to sing ranchero. Roberto Carlos had to sing ranchero, Vikki Carr had to record ranchero. Celia Cruz came in with a mariachi.

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I have many hits, big hits, that have been written by people I don't know. In almost all my shows, people say, 'Chente, here's a CD.' When I get home, I listen to them all, and what I like, I record.

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I will live my whole life in Mexico. I want that to be clear.

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When I started my career, I always had the confidence that I would one day make it, but I never imagined that I would reach the heights at which the public has placed me.

Vicente Fernandez

They wanted to give me some other man's liver, and I told them 'I'm not going to sleep next to my wife with another man's liver.'

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I could attempt a project in English, but I'd like to continue singing in Spanish.

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I want to do interviews in English, but I want to sing in Spanish. I think it could work.

Vicente Fernandez

I would love to be on Oprah or Larry King.

Vicente Fernandez

I think the United States is extremely important for Mexican music.

Vicente Fernandez

I accept recording with everybody, as long as it's with a mariachi.

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When I come to America, I feel like I'm coming to visit family, to bring a reminder of home to those who can't be there.

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From my country, they will only take me out feet first.

Vicente Fernandez

Some of my earliest memories, from when I was six or seven, are of going to see Pedro Infante movies and telling my mother, 'When I grow up I want to be like them.'

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When I hear the public's applause, I don't know where the voice comes from, but it does for three hours.

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