Quotes from Juan Gabriel

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.

You don't ask about what can be seen.

Work is my best friend.

The artist knows how to sing, not how to count.

I don't believe in anything, only in myself, but I respect all people who believe in something.

As Juan Gabriel, music is my religion, and mariachi is my devotion. And my songs are my prayers.

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.

Art is feminine.

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.

Mexico is known throughout the world thanks to mariachi.

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.

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.

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 think, today, television is asking too many loaded questions, pushing further for ratings.

Art is feminine... Look, if you're handsome and young and beautiful, well, people are always going to say that you're gay.

Art itself is female - it is full of graciousness, cadence, color, rhythm. It's full of love and grace.

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.

I have a tendency to trust translators, mainly because nobody does it for the money.

To transcend and be yourself... I have no reason to tell you, and others, something that is not of interest to you.

I think I am an artist. I think I am Juan Gabriel, who has given so much with my songs.

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.

When I was very young, I sold the rights to my work... through 2000.

People who know Mexico know me because I'm so much a part of Mexico.

My thoughts, my feelings, my spirit, they are all in Spanish.