Juan Luis Guerra Quotes

#1. My parents and grandparents listened to bacheta heavy, the true bachata from back in the day - Juan Luis Guerra, Anthony Santos. I liked the genre, but I remember thinking, 'OK, enough of this.' I would sing Usher's 'U Remind Me' to the girls in school.

Prince Royce

#2. The fun of sitting around Pangong Lake with 40 guys around a fireplace, having a glass of wine ... staying in one camp together ... that's an experience. Waking up at 5 in the morning, watching the sun come up. You don't do these things in Bombay.

Gautam Singhania

#3. I feel like with our shows it always feels weird to be performers on stage and not engaging in audience interaction in some way - that exchange of energy is very much a part of the sound.

Taraka Larson

#4. I have drunk and seen the spider.

William Shakespeare

#5. It's an incredible honor to be recognized by St. Jude, especially on a special year like its 50th anniversary. I feel passionate about my music, but even more passionate about children and giving them the opportunity to live a healthy and happy life.

Juan Luis Guerra

#6. We have a pride of who we are as Latinos, regardless if we're Puerto Rican, Dominican, Venezuelan, and we're very proud of our customs and our history and our traditions and who we are.

Juan Luis Guerra

#7. When Joseph Wambaugh writes about the LAPD, you listen because you know he knows the scene. Lots of people write cop novels, but they don't have that authenticity.

Gregory Benford

#8. Perfection itself is imperfection

Vladimir Horowitz

#9. May God fill this beautiful land of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador with his peace and love.

Juan Luis Guerra

#10. These dudes, clutching their little gifts, for them today is their kind-of-honeymoon.

Chuck Palahniuk

#11. A century is about events. A decade is about people.

George Friedman

#12. There is a powerful for within each of us.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. The Niagara on a bicycle. It's like trying to cross the Niagara on a bicycle, which is impossible, but it's an expression in the Dominican Republic that basically says that someone is going through a hard time.

Juan Luis Guerra

#14. A question is a door and an unopened door is just part of the wall and as long as it's standing it's doing its job.

Brian McGreevy

#15. He'll flirt until you're a blob of goo and make you fall in love, then look all befuddled when you come on to him.

Lauren Groff

#16. If you woke up, every day, and someone punched you in the face, for the first week, you'd go, 'Why is someone punching me in the face?' But, by the time you got through week two, you'd take it and just go on with the day.

Dominic Monaghan

#17. I came to Berklee to study guitar, I really wanted to be a jazz guitarist, and I really came because I really wanted to come for Pat Metheny, and then when I get to Berklee, there's no Pat Metheny, he's not there, and so now what do I do?

Juan Luis Guerra

#18. Merengue is a fast rhythm, you know, and danceable. Bachata is like a slow, romantic Caribbean bolero.

Juan Luis Guerra

#19. Where love fails we espy all faults.

John Ray

#20. I have a dream of getting a visa, which is a dream that many people have so they can leave their countries to come someplace else, specifically they want to come to the United States.

Juan Luis Guerra

#21. ...You would be 'my boy', belonging to me alone, and I'd be faithful to you."
"Homecoming

Keegan Kennedy

#22. I mean he was mostly a Year Book kind of handsome guy.

J.D. Salinger