Jose Feliciano Quotes

Jose Feliciano

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 10, 1945

You can't write much quality, original music on a concertina.

Jose Feliciano

I truly enjoyed the '60s.

Jose Feliciano

I got tired of seeing people rush through the national anthem so they could have their popcorn and get to the game. Nobody ever sang the anthem with soul. It was always done clinically and they always stuck to the original. I put feeling into it. I sang it in a soulful manner.

Jose Feliciano

When people don't hear you on the radio they think 'maybe he retired.'

Jose Feliciano

I didn't mean for it to cause such a furor, but I was the first guy to ever do the national anthem with a guitar. Everyone else had the big brass band. Nowadays it's tracks that they sing to, but in my day, we had no tracks. And I was the only orchestra that I knew that was the best orchestra and that was me and my guitar.

Jose Feliciano

I'm in a museum. I'm a relic.

Jose Feliciano

I don't know if it's a legacy, but I love it. In my mind and other people's minds, they know I was the first to stylize the national anthem.

Jose Feliciano

It taught the English to speak Spanish and it taught the Spanish to speak English. If we had more songs such as that, it would solve the immigration problem in a hurry. But there can't be another 'Feliz Navidad.'

Jose Feliciano

I liked the Doors and that kind of music.

Jose Feliciano

I write with my brain. I don't need a computer.

Jose Feliciano

If I were to travel with all my instruments, I would need a truck.

Jose Feliciano

I'm a musician first and sight has never had anything to do with it.

Jose Feliciano

I'm very proud being Puerto Rican. I'm American. That is what America is made of - people from different lands.

Jose Feliciano

I never knew whether I'd make it as a star but I always wanted to.

Jose Feliciano

My dream was to be a celebrity, to be on TV like Bob Hope was.

Jose Feliciano

I have genuine respect for women and I want to win their respect. I don't want them to look at me and say, 'Oh, another man with the same attitudes as most men.'

Jose Feliciano

I mean, it wasnt like I had said to myself beforehand, 'OK, I'm gonna go out there and sing 'The Star-Spangled Banner' in the weirdest way possible and cause a commotion.' I just sang it the way I felt it I sang it the only way I could.

Jose Feliciano

I didnt go to the high school prom. Couldn't get a date.

Jose Feliciano

God gave me a good voice. I have perfect pitch. I don't sing flat.

Jose Feliciano

I contend that if it wasn't for Jimi, the gadgets we use for electric guitars now wouldn't have happened. He was an inventor, in a sense - as well as being great artist.

Jose Feliciano