“Beautiful‘ and ‘Depends‘ are they the same song? ”Jordi Évole asked Pau Donés in the middle of an interview honoring that 2002 program in which the two met.
Seeming whimsical fate, this question so ‘follonera’ could not be missed in the last interview that the singer gave before dying a victim of cancer on June 9.
In ‘What you give me‘, a documentary broadcast for the first time open this past Sunday on La Sexta, Pau Donés gave us something more than a series of inspiring quotes, and that is that the singer of’ Jarabe de Palo ‘rather gives a life lesson.
One of the most striking is perhaps the simplest, the one with which you show your intentions and recognize the true objective of the interview.
Pau Donés wanted Jordi Évole to be in charge of making it, and that is because “I needed to explain that I am a normal type, without entering the frivolous world of entertainment and music”.
This past Sunday, many have been able to enjoy those words of Pau Donés that they already conquered in the cinema a few months ago, when the documentary was released.
The most inspiring phrases of Pau Donés
- “Fear is terrible, it blocks the freedom to be yourself. It terrifies me to see people who are afraid of life, of loving and being loved”
- “Fear is worse than death”
- “Fear cuts you off the freedom to be yourself”
- “It terrifies me to see that people are afraid to live”
- “You have to accept death as part of life. I am not afraid of dying, what worries me is suffering and seeing my people suffer”
- “From the moment you accept that death is something that goes with you, you are much calmer”
- “I don’t want to die. Now I’m not doing well, I have things to do”
- “I want to end my life being the happiest uncle in the world. Now I am happy, but it is a bastard happiness, because dying is not good for me, I have many things to do. I want to stay to see the colors of autumn, see it snow …”
- “I would like to live another year … well, fifteen or twenty more years, until the age of 70 would be fine. I would like to be able to meet my grandchildren”
- “I wish my mother had met her granddaughter”
- “The couple is the graveyard of love. Instead, I fully believe in the family”
- “My daughter taught me to love. I became a musician because I am not able to tell a woman I love her face. My daughter taught me to say ‘I love you’ without words”
- “Not crying seems to me a sign of weakness. Crying is a sign of courage, I love to cry”
- “I am angry with my cancer because I do not want to leave. When I was diagnosed with cancer I had a terrible fear. Then I learned to live with the disease and I imagined that I would grow old. It is an idea that we all have. I have lived five years with cancer, I have I have released two albums and I have had a nephew. I give thanks to life “
- “I want to laugh, to cry … but above all to live”
- “I would like my colleagues to remember and respect me as a composer who needed to communicate and do beautiful things, who did them honestly”
- “Life is four days, and three have already passed. Shit, let’s not be here in a bad mood, let’s be here in a good mood, let’s love each other. Let’s not hate each other, because hatred leads us nowhere, only to bad things”
- “Don’t worry, take care. Enjoy, have fun, ride your life for whatever you have left, even if you don’t know how much it is, that you are well, at ease and as happy as you can”
- “Thank you all, my life has been a real privilege, I am leaving in peace”