***Selena Quotes***
-"I belong to the people and I don't want to build a fence between myself and my fans."
-"After a while things started clicking, I think it was more of a power struggle because we usually don't have to fight for what we do."
-"And it's because of our songwriting. You know it's hard to write songs. You can't just write it down."
-"It's like a gradual growing process, it's not like it came over night and I'm like I can't handle it."
-"The only way for us to put bread on the table was to try to do music professianally and make a living out of it."
-"We started playing gigs that we could get, if we could 100 dollars for playing 4 hours. We would be like, Oh god, this is cool (laughing) Now it's like "Uh" (laughing), But I mean, you gotta take what you can get, when you're getting started. We got laughed at, my father was was told we would never make it
-"Although my spanish is a little week. I feel that I am mexican. I am very proud of my roots. And since I was little we played Tejano music besides English music and country. It was something natural for us"
-(talking about a concert she was doing that night) "I'm nervous, I usually don't get nervous for shows, but I'm nervous tonight, see I'm too honest (laughing) I'm too honest for my own good" (laughing)
-(during the 1995 awards)"We got up and we screamed, it was at the pretailacost part of the awards and it was like maybe 10 of us sitting in a one row towards the back because we showed up late, like always, I'm always late for everything, and they announced me as the winner and I was like "Oh my god" and we stood up and we
screamed and I was wearing this crystal beaded gown and I remember going down this, ya know how it kinda slants, and thinking, gee Selena, if you fall. (laughing) You're going to be soo embarrassed, don't fall, cause it had this fishtail in the back of it and I was trying to be all cool walking up there. It was great and looking back now, it's all an experience I will never forget"
MORE QUOTES TO COME!!! PLUS QUOTES ABOUT SELENA FROM HER FANS, FAMILY AND FRIENDS!!!
