A biography for Vicente Fernandezhasn’t been written yet.
“I will live my whole life in Mexico. I want that to be clear.”
“I've always said there aren't great composers- there are great songs.”
“I accept recording with everybody, as long as it's with a mariachi.”
“When I hear the public's applause, I don't know where the voice comes from, but it does for three hours.”
“There are other singers of ranchera music who sing very beautifully, but you can tell from the way they sing that they never lived on a ranch. They never knew what it was to milk a cow, to birth a calf, to shoe a horse. I've lived all that.”