I enjoy every moment because I believe that once we die, that's it. We're not coming back.
You don't ask about what can be seen.
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.
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.
There are times when I'm really happy and I write something really sad, and vice versa.
Art is feminine... Look, if you're handsome and young and beautiful, well, people are always going to say that you're gay.
As Juan Gabriel, music is my religion, and mariachi is my devotion. And my songs are my prayers.
What I say is what I feel, whether anyone likes it or not.
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.
I compose songs with a lot of simplicity because my school has been the streets, and people have been my books.
People who know Mexico know me because I'm so much a part of Mexico.
There are no rules when I compose songs.
Work is my best friend.
Let others worry about their own lives, and let the rest of us live.
My thoughts, my feelings, my spirit, they are all in Spanish.
Art is feminine.
The artist knows how to sing, not how to count.
When I have the opportunity to work, I organize a whole party - like what you perhaps saw at the Grammys.
Mexico is known throughout the world thanks to mariachi.
My mother didn't know what to do with me.
