Sixto Rodriguez Quotes

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Sixto Rodriguez

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 10, 1942

In the '60s and '70s, a protest song was a genre in music.

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I play guitar and I'm always trying to find out the latest kinds of riffs.

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I've been chasing music since I was 16.

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Musicians do music for the girls. We do music for the money. We do music for the recognition, for the rock and roll history. But we also do it because it's fun.

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I'm a fortunate man, quite fortunate.

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I'm lucky. It's okay that success has come later to me, because I might have burned up if it had happened earlier.

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I'm not a visual guy. I'm audio. I'm a musician. I know what I do. I play guitar, and in my category I'm doing O.K.

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I'm a family person, and you make those choices.

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I like language, words. And I think the survival skills I've developed over the years have added a lot to my perspective.

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I used protest music as a vehicle.

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I got my style. I got my own way of playing. I'm a musician. I'm self-taught.

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Some bands don't do covers. I love music. I've done the '40s, the '50s, 'the '60s, the '70s, the '80s, the '90s, the '00s, and I'm working on the '10s.

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Music is a living art.

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I have a formal education, but there's a whole lot you don't learn in school. And you only have so much time to figure it out. No matter how cerebral, celestial, how ethnic, there's a span of time here.

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Whenever I speak, I talk to the collective consciousness of my audience.

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Education, information and knowledge are all one.

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My entry level has always been pretty high in the music business.

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That's the way I always listened to music. I'd listen and copy it. I play by ear so that's easier than reading.

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I'm a worker, but I think that all workers get an idea of what to do to get free. Any kind of bondage, even economic bondage, is slavery.

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I chose music and that's what I do.

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