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 popular ranchera music to the zenith.
Her personal style shocked society at the time: she dressed like a man, she was armed with a gun, and she openly acknowledged being gay in 2000, in a televised interview.
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Famous phrases of Chavela Vargas
The songs composed by José Alfredo Jiménez were masterfully interpreted by the great Chavela Vargas. Despite her multiple problems with alcohol and other drugs, the legacy of the ranchera singer remains undisturbed, years after her death.
In today's article We are going to know the most outstanding Chavela Vargas phrases, as well as some famous quotes that all Mexicans remember with nostalgia.
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1. I always knew. There is no one who can put up with 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 capable of understanding love with such a degree of freedom and autonomy.
2. Love is a step. Goodbye is different... and both must be firm, nothing is forever in life.
A phrase of resignation from the great ranchera singer.
3. When I sing, those who listen to me feel. And they cry because they realize that they are still capable of feeling. Despite the ills of the world.
Human sensitivity 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. We only understand each other from drunk to drunk.
Famous quote from a well-known alcoholic.
6. I will meet you with you with death. I'm not afraid; I'm not afraid; I have respect for him. Lady here I am, whenever 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 don't want crosses or crying. Let the Vargas rest.
Eternal rest, longed for by the interpreter.
9. Once there was a knock on the door and I told Frida that he was a hairy old man. It was Leon Trotsky. I didn't know who he was. It was that gentleman, nothing more and nothing less.
A chance meeting with one of the highest leaders and leaders of Soviet communism.
10. If diplomats sang, there would be no wars.
Singing 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 everyday life.
12. You have to take care of the world, protect love, peace, justice.
About his pacifist spirit.
13. When I enter the stage I feel scared. But something I find or something finds me. Before finishing the first song I'm already somewhere else. On the side of my public.
About his sensations just before entering the scene.
14. I have done everything knowingly and I regret nothing. 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 awareness made even his darkest stages vivid.
15. She loves without measure, without limit, without a complex, without permission, without courage, without advice, without a doubt, without a price, without a cure, without anything. Don't be afraid to love, you will shed tears with love or without it.
One of the most remembered famous quotes by Chavela Vargas.
16. Love does not exist, it is an invention of drunken nights.
Beer glasses can alter our perception.
17. Music has no borders, but it does have a common ending: love and rebellion.
Constantly in tune with these two intense and irrational feelings.
18. Women with a past and men with a future are the most interesting people.
Ideal for having a long conversation.
19. What hurts is not being homosexual, but being thrown in the face as if it were a plague.
About her statement on television. He couldn't bear the stigma associated with her sexual condition.
20. I am not a politician, nor a militant of anything. Singing is my instrument. And I say it singing.
The only language of hers was the musical language.
21. You have to know how to feel, 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 very beautiful lady approached me and whispered: Chavela, when do we go to bed? How daring! I love it.
A somewhat risqué proposition.
23. I want that one day it will be understood that my message is no longer from the throat, it is no longer from a record, it is no longer from a concert: it is the immense voice of the human individual that is silent, that has no name, that cannot be called by any name. manner. That is what I feel, that is what will not let me die until people know that my singing is not singing, that it is something beyond pain, beyond anguish, beyond knowledge, beyond everything, art itself same.
The voice of the silenced, according to Chavela Vargas.
24. How beautiful is Spain, what freedom. Spain feels. You feel the strength of the female of Europe, which is Spain, and just as you feel the strength of the male of America, which is Mexico. I love Spain.
A deep praise for this Iberian land.
25. My relationship with music comes from nature, not from academia. If she had studied to be a singer, she might have been a great musician, but never Chavela Vargas.
Self-learning made Chavela's figure great.
26. I have drunk forty-five thousand liters of tequila and I assure you that I can still donate my liver.
A bomb-proof body.
27. What you want from me I will give you, but I will never give you anything back. That's how I work.
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 at their own wake.
Fun way to express your jovial nature.
30. Bye bye? You never say goodbye, you say I love you.
A more meaningful way to end a conversation or relationship.
31. People look at me like the crazy old woman that I am.
About the way in which others judge her for her way of being and aesthetics.
32. A life well lived is the best thing to remember.
The life story itself is something memorable.
33. I've never slept with a man. Never. Look how pure, I have nothing to be ashamed of... My gods made me like this.
A consequence of his sexual orientation.
34. I have had to fight to be me and to be respected, and carrying that stigma, for me, is a source of pride. Carry the name of lesbian. I'm not showing off, I'm not preaching it, but I don't deny it.
The stigma can be a significant burden, but it does not eliminate one's individuality.
35. Life looks better at 93... check it out
Age brings another way of perceiving things and analyzing them.
36. Love like there is no tomorrow.
Another of those life mottos that keep its strength in its simplicity.
37. I am one of those people who prefers to love than to be loved. But one has to give thanks because they love it.
About his stance when it comes to love.
38. To enjoy: love. To suffer: love. To live: love. To die: love. To laugh: love. To cry: 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, it fills me with something strange that nourishes me, it speaks to me at night, it tells me stories, stories that are true, that are true.
Imagination can be a powerful remedy against the negative effects of loneliness.
41. The years have taught me nothing, I always fall into the same mistakes again, to toast with strangers and to cry over 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 millions. That's how we are. And I love being like that and that's how I'm going to die, free!
Showing off his mentality in rejection of materialism.
43. I bequeath my freedom to you.
A reference on how to live without unnecessary ties.
44. I'm going to scream with all my soul to let the world know that I'm alive. Live from so much living. Live from so much love.
The vital attitude was a characteristic of her.
45. Those simple things that remain aching in the heart.
There are small events capable of dealing a heavy blow to us.
46. Freedom is not only loneliness, it is also poverty. Being free is poor. I would not want, 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 he is not a free being.
That kind of power, also binds.
47. Give away your kisses, sell your caresses, lease your soul... After me, do what you want.
About heartbreak and breakup.
48. When the Mexicans believed in their gods, it was different. The indigenous people are still strong people. Despite everything, his strength continues to sustain the world.
A resilience capacity that defines them as a people.
49. Mexico has magic. And I searched for magic and found it.
Another sample of the appreciation that this singer had for the country.
50. I love that she is entertained when she is alive. When I'm dead, leave me alone.
For her, these tokens of appreciation should be given when someone else can enjoy them.
51. Mexico is my land. I wasn't born here but I love it. It is the most beautiful country in the world.
The praises of Mexico were a constant in the life of this singer.
52. The weight that falls on the skin after a concert is too much. An enormous weight that covers the soul. It is the weight of loneliness.
There is a contrast between fame and meaningful personal relationships.
53. Lovers of the world: sometimes it is more beautiful to remember than to live.
Memories are in themselves a set of experiences with great value.
54. Mexico is asleep, but it is a giant. A sleeping giant. I don't even want to think about what will happen when I wake up... when the giant wakes up, hypocrisy, farce, everything that makes Mexico a poor country will go away.
About the potential of the Mexican country.
55. I have had to deal with society, with the Church, which says that homosexuals are damned... It is absurd. How can you judge a being that was born like this? I did not study for lesbian. They didn't even teach me to be like that. I was born like this. 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 by lack nor by excess.
It may bring very intense emotions, but it does not stop our hearts.
57. Since I got on the plane and saw the Mexican flag, I was very excited. I was looking for Mexico, I believed in Mexico without knowing it.
One of those Chavela Vargas phrases full of patriotism.
58. What you want from me I give it to you. But I don't return your kisses.
About the way in which loving relationships transform us.
59. I am like the llorona 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 something sufficient 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 a mark on us as mentors and sources of knowledge and inspiration.
63. Yesterday I cried to see you, Llorona, and today I cried because I saw you.
A paradoxical situation.
64. One day I went for a walk and fell. I couldn't get up anymore. It's life charging you its salary. It is life that charges you what it gave you or what is to come. Life is ahead of you. It's life that tells you I'm going to charge you for this. Well, it doesn't tell you but there is the combination of life and soul.
Nothing should be taken for granted.
65. And when you are happier, out of nowhere, a tear will come out for my memory.
Painful memories can make us experience the present in a different way.
66. You were my only desire in those drunken nights.
One of Chavela Vargas's phrases that refer to passion, that very human facet.
67. I don't 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. Mexico is 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; is its scent. Mexico.
Expressing your love for this country.
69. Let's not condemn to shipwreck what we experienced for our yesterday, for our love I ask you, wait, I still Springs remain in my hands to fill you with all new caresses, which would die in my hands if you you were.
What has happened, not because it is not in the present, ceases to be a reality.
70. There are times when I think I'm dead... when I wake up I hear myself talking and I think that I'm actually dead. But I come 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 are devoured by time.
An interesting aphorism about love.
72. I didn't give a damn what they said... The machos didn't like me showing up to sing in men's pants. But I didn't care. Unless they were too clever. So I did get the Chavela Vargas thing.
Challenging gender roles may cause negative reactions for some, but that doesn't mean you should give in to these pressures.
