Sixto Rodriguez Quotes

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Sixto Rodriguez

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 10, 1942

I like Detroit.

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Many of us come into the world with a clenched fist, but we all leave with an open hand.

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It's an honor and a pleasure to be heard.

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There's no blueprint for success in rock'n'roll.

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I think that many of the issues they were facing in South Africa were the same as those I was singing about. Conscription, resisting the draft, government repression - I mentioned all those things in my songs.

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I learned that South Africa is a beautiful country with gorgeous people, and I got to see it from a different perspective than most people do.

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Barriers are being brought down by technology through the Internet.

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I enjoy room service.

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That late success has happened is OK. I'm grounded. I use my seniority to my advantage. That's helped me out. Who'd have thought? So, yeah. I'm a lucky guy.

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My career, it's been a mess.

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I'm born and bred out of Detroit. Detroit is an interesting place. You've got to be from somewhere.

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Voice is the first instrument.

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In the music business, there's a lot of criticism and rejection. If you embrace it, you'll be better off when the adjustment comes.

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If I sound political, it's because I am.

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I always like to say that you've got to... use all your talent.

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You see there's music and there's the music business - and they're different.

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Music is not a spectator sport, you have to be involved - fully involved - or you get left behind.

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I always had my guitar; I worked at writing some songs. I always played music - in the house. I sang to my daughters, I scribbled down some ideas. Actually I didn't always play music. I did leave it alone for some time too.

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I've always covered some Dylan songs. I do one or two. And I do them because they're great songs. You know some people cover songs they wish they could have written, not me. I like to cover songs I know I could not have ever written.

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