The 72 best phrases of Chavela Vargas
Isabel Vargas, better known as Chavela Vargas (Costa Rica, 1919 - Mexico, 2012), was an illustrious Mexican singer who popularized and brought to the zenith popular ranchera music.
His personal style shocked the society of that time: dressed like a man, armed with a gun and openly acknowledged being homosexual in 2000, in a televised interview.
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Famous quotes from Chavela Vargas
The songs composed by José Alfredo Jiménez were performed brilliantly by the great Chavela Vargas . Despite her multiple problems with alcohol and other drugs, the legacy of the rancheras singer remains unperturbed, years after her death.
In today's article let's get to know Chavela Vargas's most outstanding phrases , as well as some famous quotes that all Mexicans remember with nostalgia.
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1. I always knew. There is nobody who holds the freedom of others; Nobody likes to live with a free person. If you are free, that is the price you have to pay: loneliness.
Unfortunately, few are able to understand love with such a degree of freedom and autonomy.
2. Love is a step. Goodbye is another ... and both must be firm, nothing is forever in life.
A phrase of resignation of the great singer of rancheras.
3. When I sing, those who hear me feel. And they cry because they realize that they are still capable of feeling. Despite the evils of the world.
Human sensibility is still there despite all the ravages of life.
4. You have to fill the planet with violins and guitars instead of so much shrapnel.
A phrase for peace.
5. Only from drunk to drunk we understand each other.
Famous appointment of a renowned alcoholic.
6. I will meet you with you with death. I'm not afraid; I'm not afraid; I have respect Lady here I am, when you want ...
Accepting the final destination, with integrity.
7. Frida spread tenderness like flowers, yes, like flowers. A great tenderness, an infinite tenderness.
Remembering the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo.
8. I will die on a Monday, the most boring day but I do not want crosses or tears. Let the Vargas rest.
The eternal rest, longed for by the interpreter.
9. Once they knocked on the door and I told Frida that he was a hairy old man. It was Leon Trotsky. I did not know who he was. It was that man nothing more and nothing less.
A chance meeting with one of the top leaders and leaders of Soviet communism.
10. If the diplomats sang, there would be no wars.
Song tames the beasts.
11. To believe, you have to feel the need to believe.
One of those Chavela Vargas phrases that has a meaning applicable to day to day.
12. We must take care of the world, protect love, peace, justice.
On his pacifist spirit.
13. When I enter the stage I feel fear. But something I find or something finds me. Before I finish the first song I am already in another side. On the side of my audience.
On his sensations just before entering the scene.
14. Everything I have done knowingly and do not regret anything. Neither the good, nor the bad, nor the happy moments, nor the sadness ... In the end, my soul is full of peace and tranquility.
His conscience made even his darkest stages lived intensely.
15. Love without measure, without limit, without complex, without permission, without courage, without advice, without doubt, without price, without cure, without anything. Do not be afraid to love, you will shed tears with love or without it.
One of the most remembered Chavela Vargas famous quotes.
16. Love does not exist, it is an invention of drunken nights.
Beer glasses can alter our perception.
17. Music has no boundaries, but a common ending: love and rebellion.
In constant harmony with these two intense and irrational feelings.
18. Women with a past and men with a future are the most interesting people.
Ideal to have a long conversation.
19. What hurts is not to be homosexual, but to be thrown in the face like a plague.
About his statement on television. He could not stand the stigma associated with his sexual condition.
20. I am not a politician, nor a militant at all. Singing is my instrument. And I say it singing.
His only language was the musical language.
21. You have to know how to feel, that you have to know how to fight to earn the respect of others and respect those others.
An ethical maxim to apply to our lives.
22. In a restaurant, a beautiful lady approached me and whispered to me: "Chavela, when are we going to bed? How daring! I love.
A somewhat raised pitch proposition.
2. 3.I want someday to understand that my message is no longer from the throat, it is no longer a record, it is no longer a concert: it is the immense voice of the human individual who is silent, who has no name, who can not be called no way. That's what I feel, that's what does not let me die until people know that my song is not singing, that it's something beyond pain, beyond anguish, beyond knowledge, beyond all , of art itself.
The voice of the silenced, according to Chavela Vargas.
24. How beautiful is Spain, what freedom. It feels Spain. Feel the strength of the female of Europe, which is Spain, and just like the strength of the male of America, which is Mexico. I love Spain.
A deep praise towards this Iberian land.
25. My relationship with music comes from nature, not from academia. If I had studied to be a singer, maybe I would have been a great musician, but never Chavela Vargas.
The self-study made the figure of Chavela great.
26. I have taken forty-five thousand liters of tequila and I assure you that I can still donate my liver.
A bombproof body.
27. Whatever you want from me, I'll give it to you, but I'll never give you anything back. That's how it worked.
An attitude applied in personal relationships.
28. One always returns to the old places where he loved life.
Revisiting these special places can be an intense experience.
29. I am one of those women who have fun even in their own wake.
Fun way to express your jovial character.
30. Goodbye? You never say Goodbye, it's said I love you.
A more meaningful way to end a conversation or relationship.
31. People look at me like the crazy old woman I am.
About the way in which others judge by their way of being and aesthetics.
32. A life well lived is the best you can remember.
The history of life itself is something memorable.
33. I have never slept with a man. Never. Look what purity, I do not have to be ashamed ... My gods made me like that.
A consequence of their sexual orientation.
34. I have had to fight to be myself and to be respected, and to carry that stigma, for me, is a pride. Carry the lesbian name. I'm not bragging, I'm not proclaiming it, but I'm not denying it.
Stigma can be an important slab, but it does not eliminate one's own individuality.
35. Life looks better at 93 ... check it out.
Age provides another way of perceiving things and analyzing them.
36. Love as if there were no tomorrow.
Another one of those life slogans that keep their strength in their simplicity.
37. I am one of those people who prefer to love to love. But you have to thank them because they want it.
About his position in regard to love.
38. To enjoy: love. To suffer: love. To live: love. To die: love. To laugh: love. To mourn: love ... and for everything else love.
Everything is contained in this very human component.
39. Distances separate cities, cities destroy customs.
About the advance of the globalized world.
40. Loneliness does not weaken me, it strengthens me, fills me with something strange that nourishes me, speaks to me at night, tells me stories, stories that are true, that are true.
Imagination can be a potent remedy against the negative effects of loneliness.
41. Nothing has taught me the years, I always fall into the same mistakes again, to toast with strangers and to cry for the same pains.
The simple fact of exposing ourselves to new experiences does not guarantee us to learn.
42. The soul is worth more than the millions. That's how we are. And I love being that way and that's how I'm going to die, free!
Flaunting his mentality in rejection of materialism.
43. I leave my inheritance my freedom.
A reference about how to live without unnecessary ties.
44. I will scream with all my soul so that the world knows that I am alive. Live from so much living. Live of so much love.
The vital attitude was a characteristic of her.
45. Those simple things that remain painful in the heart.
There are small facts capable of striking a blow at us.
46. Freedom is not only loneliness, it is also poverty. Being free is poor. I would not like, for anything in the world, to be in the shoes of that Mexican who they say is one of the richest or the richest in the world. Surely it is not a free being.
That kind of power, also ties.
47. Give your kisses, sell your caresses, rent your soul ... after me, do what you want.
About the lack of love and the break.
48. When Mexicans believed in their gods, it was different. The Indians are still strong people. In spite of everything, his strength continues to sustain the world.
A capacity for resilience that defines them as a people.
49. Mexico has magic. And I looked for the magic and I found it.
Another sign of the appreciation that this singer had for the country.
50. I love that there is entertainment when I am alive. When I'm dead, leave me alone.
For her, these samples of appreciation should be given when there is someone who can enjoy them.
51. Mexico is my land. I was not born here but I love it. It is the most beautiful country in the world.
The praises to Mexico were a constant in the life of this singer.
52The weight that falls on the skin after a concert is too much. A huge weight that covers the soul. It is the weight of loneliness.
There is a contrast between fame and significant personal relationships.
53. Lovers of the world: sometimes it is more beautiful to remember than to live.
Memories are a set of experiences with a lot of value.
54. Mexico is asleep, but it is a giant. A sleeping giant. I do not even want to think what will happen when I wake up ... when the giant awakens, hypocrisy, farce, everything that makes Mexico a poor country will go away.
About the potential of the Mexican country.
55. I have had to face society, with the Church, which says that damn homosexuals ... It's absurd. How are you going to judge a being who was born that way? I did not study for lesbian. They did not teach me to be like that. I was born that way. Since I opened my eyes to the world.
In defense of the rights of those who have a non-normative sexual orientation.
56. No one dies of love, neither for lack nor for surplus.
It may bring intense emotions, but it does not stop the heart.
57. Since I got on the plane and saw the Mexican flag, I was very touched. I was looking for Mexico, I believed in Mexico without knowing it.
One of those phrases of Chavela Vargas full of patriotism.
58. Whatever you want from me, I give it to you. But I do not give back your kisses.
About the way in which we transform love relationships.
59. I'm like the weeping green chile: spicy but tasty.
A comparison as simple as clear.
60. Neither Isabel nor Chabelita, Chavela!
Your personal brand
61. If I have already given you life, what more do you want? Do you want more!
Life is not in itself enough to live a full existence.
62. He taught me many things and I learned a lot, and without bragging about anything; I grabbed the sky with my hands, with every word, every morning!
There are people who leave us a brand as mentors and sources of knowledge and inspiration.
63. Yesterday I was crying to see you, Llorona, and today I cried because I saw you.
A paradoxical situation.
64. One day I went for a walk and I fell. I could not get up anymore. It's life collecting your salary. It is the life that charges you what it gave you or what is to come. Life is ahead of you. It's the life that tells you I'm going to charge you for this. Well, he does not tell you but there is the combination of life and soul.
Do not take anything for granted.
65. And the happier you are, out of nothing, a tear will come from my memory.
Painful memories can cause us to experience the present in a different way.
66. You were my only wish on those drunken nights.
One of the Chavela Vargas phrases that refer to passion, that very human facet.
67. I do not deserve anything more than what I have. That's why they call me a millionaire, because I have what I want without having money, and that's wonderful.
An assessment of their living conditions, beyond the economic.
68. Mexico has a place for foreigners, it has a strange song. To say Mexico is to say sweet, sweet Mexico. The word Mexico, not Argentina, not Brazil, no. It is Mexico the divine word, the magic word, the wise word. It is its sound and it is the color that appears in the brain when we say it; It's your aroma. Mexico.
Expressing his love for this country.
69. Do not condemn the shipwreck lived by our yesterday, for our love I ask you, wait, I still have in my hands springs to fill you with new caresses, that would die in my hands if you were.
What has happened, not because of not being in the present, is no longer a reality.
70. There are times when I think I am dead ... when I wake up I hear myself speak and I think that, in reality, I am dead. But back, I always come back to life.
A phenomenon related to the way in which reality is experienced.
71. Love is simple and simple things devour time.
An interesting aphorism about love.
72. I did not care about a sovereign whistle what they said ... The males did not like me to introduce myself to sing in men's pants. But I did not care. Unless they went too smart. Then I did Chavela Vargas.
Challenging gender roles can cause negative reactions in some, but that does not mean that they must yield to these pressures.
