Sixto Rodriguez Quotes

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Sixto Rodriguez

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 10, 1942

I'm a musical political, I tend to stick to what I see happening outside my front door.

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I want to be mayor of the world. Don't give me too much money or too much power.

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I don't necessarily want a higher education, I want a wider education. I want to know everything and experience everything.

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About love, don't be a silent partner. And be gentle with your anger.

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Every 20 years or so, I feel that young people confront the same issues - a new war, new challenges.

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The film, 'Searching For Sugar Man,' has excited my music career.

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You want to know the secret of life? It is to breathe in and out. And the mystery of life? You never know when it is going to end.

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The social realism of ' Establishment Blues' or 'Like Janis,' are what I chose to use to express what was happening in the U.S. and what was happening to me personally.

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I like to say that I do covers of my own songs. And I have about a dozen bands all over the world. That's no exaggeration. I have a South African band, an Australian band, Swedish bands, English bands, American bands. They're all notable musicians, too.

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I loved Jimmy Reed, the chord changes, the lyrics.

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You can't get around certain stuff, whether it's in Darfur or on your block at home. What makes us political is your home turf, your family, your life space. You walk down the street, and automatically a human being is territorial, and political happens in that.

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I did a lot of heavy-lifting - construction, demolition, that kind of thing. Dusty, dirty work.

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I play by ear - I'm self-taught. And so everything I do is through that technique.

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I'm Mexican, and we do a lot of singing, and it was my brother's guitar that I'd practice on, and he would say, 'Who's that playing my guitar?'

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My dad, he was my role model - my mom died when I was three - and the way we honor our parents is remembering their heritage.

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Music is a living art. You re-create it.

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Where other people live in an artificial world, I feel I live in the real world. And nothing beats reality.

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All my life, I never gave up on music and though there was a lot of disappointment for some that the commercial thing never happened, it has never been a disappointment for me.

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I like people who can write and sing, and play an instrument.

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I have a sloppy style of playing guitar. A percussive style. Unique in fact.

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