Juan Gabriel Quotes

• There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.

  Juan Gabriel

  Taken, Whim, Dangerous

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• The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.

  Juan Gabriel

  Memories, Lying, Persons

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• 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.

  Juan Gabriel

  Believe, Humility, Careers

  "The Ballad of Juan Gabriel : After a disadvantaged childhood, the singer-songwriter grew to become Mexico's biggest pop star. Now he gets as much pleasure from helping the orphanage he started as he does singing and hearing others do his songs". Interview with Enrique Lopetegui, articles.latimes.com. July 25, 1993.

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• 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.

  Juan Gabriel

  Children, Things In Life, Childhood

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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

  Juan Gabriel

  Believe, People, Don't Believe

  "The Ballad of Juan Gabriel : After a disadvantaged childhood, the singer-songwriter grew to become Mexico's biggest pop star. Now he gets as much pleasure from helping the orphanage he started as he does singing and hearing others do his songs". Interview with Enrique Lopetegui, articles.latimes.com. July 25, 1993.

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

  Juan Gabriel

  Art, Color, Grace

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• 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.

  Juan Gabriel

  Pain, Inventory, Feels

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• 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.

  Juan Gabriel

  Singing, Songwriting

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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

  Juan Gabriel

  Doe, Tendencies, Translators

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• Adulthood brings with it a pernicious illusion of control.

  Juan Gabriel

  Illusion Of Control, Illusion, Pernicious

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• 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.

  Juan Gabriel

  Athlete, Exercise, Dedication

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