Jose Feliciano Quotes

Jose Feliciano

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 10, 1945

It is always good to make new friends.

Jose Feliciano

One thing about computers and iPhones is they're making people mentally lazy.

Jose Feliciano

I just do my thing, what I feel.

Jose Feliciano

I went through the immigration thing. But when I got to New York it wasn't so tough for me. I went to school. I went to P.S. 57, then I went to the Lighthouse for the Blind on 59th St. I guess being blind is a great leveler.

Jose Feliciano

When I first heard Bob Dylan, I'll be honest, I didn't like him. But I was shallow of mind and didn't understand the poetry. I just judged him on his singing and his guitar playing.

Jose Feliciano

People are really surprised by the fact that I keep in touch with the latest trends rather than retreating to the distant past.

Jose Feliciano

New York is really where my career somewhat started.

Jose Feliciano

I felt bad about the controversy because they stopped playing my songs on American radio stations. But there was nothing wrong with what I did. Now everybody sings the national anthem the way they want.

Jose Feliciano

I'm a one-man band!

Jose Feliciano

I loved John Lennon, by the way.

Jose Feliciano

I was the first artist to put the national anthem on the charts, and I'm thrilled.

Jose Feliciano

I'm kind of iffy on the Latin Grammys because I think we fought so hard, for example, to get the American side of the Grammys to open categories for us... But I support the Latin Grammys in the sense I'm glad that we have them.

Jose Feliciano

I sang the National Anthem with soul.

Jose Feliciano

My parents did not want us to lose our culture and our language. And that was a good thing.

Jose Feliciano

I don't think Hank Greenberg thought of himself as the first Jewish baseball player - he was a baseball player who happened to be Jewish. I'm an artist who happens to be Latin.

Jose Feliciano

The fact I'm blind has been a great help to my career. If I'd been sighted I'd have played baseball and got into trouble like all other kids on my block.

Jose Feliciano

When I came on in '68, I was really the lone wolf.

Jose Feliciano

I like Maroon 5, Swedish House Mafia and others.

Jose Feliciano

One day I heard Ray Charles on the radio and I found out he was blind. I thought, 'You know what, if there's room for Ray, there might be room for Jose.'

Jose Feliciano

I know Ritchie Valens in 1959 had 'La Bamba' but to be totally Spanish - because, you know, Ritchie didn't speak Spanish - but to be a total Latin artist like myself, to be out in a field where there weren't any categories for Latinos... I felt good that I was maybe - I didn't know it at the time - but I felt good that I opened the door.

Jose Feliciano