Quotes

[when asked by Don Francisco if she was going to keep singing] Yes. I think that's what my husband, who is in Heaven, will like: that I continue with Toño [Antonio Aguilar hijo]. That is what he wanted all his life: to take Mexican music wherever you can, to the small villages, to the cities... Until God decides that I no longer be here, but in the meantime, yes, I will continue with Toño. I wanted to go fast behind him [Antonio], but God's will be done.

[on the Aguilar family's international rodeo show, in which she performed with late husband, Antonio Aguilar, and their two children, Antonio Aguilar hijo and Pepe Aguilar] The four of us. It was a very nice clan. We were the four musketeers always everywhere.

[her acceptance speech, when Ignacio López Tarso presented her with the Diosa de Plata Lifetime Achievement Award] For me it is a great honor and even more so because this great man gives it to me. I dedicate this Diosa to you, children, to my five children [Dalia Inés, Marcela Rubiales, Francisco Rubiales, Antonio Aguilar hijo, and Pepe Aguilar] and to that man who made me so happy for 52 years, who is in Heaven seeing us right now: Mr. Antonio Aguilar Barraza.

I have been singing ever since I was eight years old. My father would make me sing because he would hear my songs, and I would learn old songs completely.

[on her stage name] In those days they were screening the film Wild Flower (1943), starring Dolores Del Río. That is how they named me Flor Silvestre.

[on El Patio, Mexico City's top nightclub, where she worked as a singer] Emilio Azcárraga, Gregorio Walerstein, who was the tsar of cinema, went there every day, and everyone saw me there and everyone hired me without me asking for anything, everyone called me and called me, and that is how I started on the XEW [radio station]. They signed me for five films. I started [my career] since I was 13, but by this time I was already between 15 and 18 years old when I began making films.

[I would like] the public to remember me with my songs and my performances, that would be beautiful.

I worked with all the comedians.

[on her career] God has been very generous with me.

[on her documentary] What you see, is what my husband and I were, and it's there.

[on her stage name] I loved it, and Dolores later reclaimed it. At a dinner in [the nightclub] El Patio, [Dolores Del Río] told [Emilio Fernández], "Hey, she does not have to call herself 'Flor Silvestre'. I am Flor Silvestre!"... [He replied,] "In the film. But she is a songstress and her name is Flor Silvestre."

[on her husband, Antonio Aguilar] When we got married, I said, "I will never make movies with anyone again". And he could kiss other women [in his movies]. That's why I didn't like to go and see him [when he was acting with other women].

[recounting the moment when Antonio Aguilar began to romance her, while filming a movie] I don't know if I liked him or not, but he was very gentle with me and helped me in recording my songs when we had to make a movie. Every day we went out horse riding and that way we got to know each other much better until one day we got lost and when we got to the farm, we went to the stables and he gave me some sugar cubes to feed my horse and then he got behind me and gave me a kiss. That's when I said, "What is this?" And that's how it started.

Almost all the films [Antonio Aguilar produced] were made around my house and I preferred to stay at home and wait for him to come back after filming, because it did make me very angry that he kissed [other actresses]. I did not like it.

[to her daughter Dalia Inés] I am proud of you, because I have seen the programs and I am very proud to see that you embrace our folklore, that you like it, that you have so much [songs and dances] from all the states of the Mexican Republic and you do it with such dignity, daughter, that I really congratulate you.

[describing her daughter Marcela Rubiales] Marcela is the beautiful, precious girl that each day I pray to God that she be very happy, that all her goals and wishes come true; because she is a beautiful, beautiful person. I say that, in feelings, she resembles me and that's why we get along very well because we're very similar. We're identical.

[describing her daughter Dalia Inés] She dances beautifully. And everything from Veracruz to huastecas, she dances everything beautifully. She is even more folkloric than I am! I love her ballet and how she loves Mexico and how she choreographs the singers and the dancers with those costumes.

I'm happy. My children, all of my children that God gave me - I say that the only thing left for me right now is to ask God for the health of all of them.