Jon Secada (Juan Francisco Secada Ramírez) Quotes
And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.
Quotes to Explore
-
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
-
I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
-
I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
-
My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.
-
I'm a stand-up comic. I'm always doing dates; it's just that, if I'm working on a project or I'm busy, I can't get out on the road or book any shows. Since the beginning of my career, I'm usually out for at least 10-15 dates throughout the year. If I have time, then I try to get at least 30-40 dates.
-
Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference.
-
I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that.
-
No one becomes an expert in a new career overnight, even if you are coming from another career where you were established and experienced.
-
It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.
-
I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays; I would write my own stories.
-
My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff that I want to know that I don't know.
-
I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.
-
I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything.
-
Music is really something that makes people whole.
-
I am a Justin Bieber fan, but I am also so fascinated by how weird pop music can be and how manipulated it can be, so I enjoy thinking about that side of it too. I feel bad for him. I could never imagine growing up that way.
-
I never going to satisfy everybody, so I decided to satisfy myself.
-
Though my poems are about evenly split between traditionally formal work that uses rhyme and meter and classical structure, and work that is freer, I feel that the music of language remains at the core of it all. Sound, rhythm, repetition, compression - these elements of my poetry are also elements of my prose.
-
It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.
-
Music is another planet.
-
When it comes to dieting, I'm the kind of person that likes to be told what to do. I don't like to count points, etc. I don't want to have a lot of choices.
-
On the same day as I started to keep my own pillow-book - I met my future husband for the first time. I was six, he was ten. We did not exchange a word. He had been hand-picked by my father's publisher.
-
Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.
-
And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.
