Quotes About Mariachi

#1. I've been collecting some more high-end guitars. I have an old Martin D28 from the '60s, a beautiful, classic Martin that I know I played on 'Mariachi.'

Ani DiFranco

#2. I had never been out of the country before. And maybe this trip didn't technically count because, well, America had officially imploded and I hadn't needed a passport to cross the border, but I was more than a little disappointed we hadn't run into a mariachi band yet. Donde esta el Zombies?

Rachel Higginson

#3. Standing out like a punk guitarist in a mariachi band.

Brandon Sanderson

#4. I hadn't crossed the line. I'd ridden an elephant up to it and run back and forth along its edge while a mariachi band played in the background, but I hadn't crossed it.

Ilona Andrews

#5. I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns.

Harry Dean Stanton

#6. When I was growing up, every Mexican boy dreamed of being a famous Lucha Libre wrestler or a Mariachi or a bull fighter.
I dreamt of being all three.

Jose N. Harris

#7. Fat green frogs, the eternally grinning type destined to be shellacked into bizarre poses while wearing mariachi hats and holding toy trumpets and guitars and then sold in tourist traps all over Mexico, jostled lazily in the dappled shadows.

Luis Alberto Urrea

#8. Many people in the neighborhood liked hip-hop and house music, and I couldn't play that. You can't perform that on guitar or drums, which was what I was playing, at the time. But, I got so much from mariachi bands that were constantly playing in the neighborhood.

Jimmy Page

#9. It's easier making a smaller film like El Mariachi. There are no budget worries because there is no budget. There is no crew problem because there is no crew. And if you screw up, no one is around to see you screw up
so it's no longer a screw up.

Robert Rodriguez

#10. The real mariachis in Mexico are singers like Agustin Lara and Pedro Infante and Jorge Negrete - the Golden Era of Mexican Filmmaking. Mariachis sing very soft and very beautiful. That's old-school mariachi. They are caressing the songs.

Jaime Camil

#11. Globalizing a bad thing makes it worse. But globalizing a good thing is usually good.

Richard Stallman

#12. Peace is meaningless without freedom.

N.K. Jemisin

#13. I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.

Sade Adu

#14. I knew a lot of my musicians used to take coke. I never saw them. They would hide it from me, so I wasn't really aware of it. Creatively, I don't think it was that great.

Giorgio Moroder

#15. It's your life, not your death, that defines you.

J.J. Brown

#16. I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.

Ted Danson

#17. There's trouble in every house, and some in the street.
Irish Proverb

Dorien Kelly

#18. Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

Robert Redford

#19. The problem with being linear minded is that you would ask this at all! You assume that you must do one or the other. Plan or not plan. How about planning to walk in a certain direction until the "now" offers you another plan?

Lee Carroll

#20. Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

Saul Bellow

#21. And then in response to a reply audible to no one but him, Gwilherm de Vannes, bravest of men, gave one last contented sigh and closed his eyes.

Ariana Franklin

#22. Leather and tattoos, they were his cover, and she wondered what she'd find when she unwrapped him.

Cindy Skaggs

#23. Just to see you smile I'd do anything that you wanted me to. When all is said and done I'd never count the cost, cause it's worth all that's lost just to see you smile.

Tim McGraw