Quotes by puerto rican authors

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

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I just happened to be Latino, and like any artist, I was trying to forge a career. If I opened doors for others, that's great, but nobody starts out with those aspirations. Jose Feliciano

Great Doors Starts Others Those Latino Out Nobody Opened Like Forge Trying Any Artist Just Happened Aspirations Career

I don't think kneeling during the anthem is such a bad thing. Jose Feliciano

Think Bad Bad Thing Kneeling Anthem Thing

There were screaming girls, I had to learn as a blind person how to run to a limousine otherwise they'd take my clothes off and stuff. I thought to myself 'how could this happen?' I mean I could see it, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, but Jose Feliciano? It was a mystery to me. Jose Feliciano

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I was growing up at a time when music was growing and changing so fast. I had learned all the big band sounds of the 1940s, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey. But then along came Chuck Berry, Les Paul, Fats Domino and I figured out how to make their music as well. Jose Feliciano

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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

Great Me Immigration School Tough Guess Through Lighthouse New Blind Got York New York Being Then Thing Leveler

I didn't have romances when I was in school. Girls didn't want to go out with me because I was blind. Jose Feliciano

Me School Girl Out Blind Because Go Romances Want

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

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

Hope TV Dream Like Celebrity Bob Bob Hope

When I was 15, I became an avid fan of Andres Segovia. He brought so much respectability to the guitar. Jose Feliciano

Guitar Respectability Brought He Became Fan Much Avid

I think sighted people let their eyes cheat them out of certain things. People who can see don't have a great sense of smell because they don't use it. Jose Feliciano

Great Eyes People Smell Sense Think I Think Out See Great Sense Cheat Because Them Certain Use Certain Things Who Things

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

People One Thing About Mentally Lazy Computers Making Thing

I take pride in the fact that I was the first Hispanic artist to really crack the English market. Jose Feliciano

Pride First Market Fact Take Hispanic Crack Artist Really English

Feliz Navidad' has interfaced the English and Spanish cultures to come together and after all, we're living in a multi-cultural world. Jose Feliciano

Together World Living Come Cultures After Spanish English

When you've had a chance to live some experiences then you can really write, and not having lived that much when I was young I didn't have much to write about. Now having seen life, the songs seem to come easier. Jose Feliciano

I became a teen idol. At the time, it embarrassed me. Jose Feliciano

Time Me Teen Teen Idol Embarrassed Became Idol

I've been playing in Israel since 1971. Jose Feliciano

Since Israel Been Playing

I liked the Doors and that kind of music. Jose Feliciano

Music Doors Kind Liked The Doors

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

Wolf I Came Lone Lone Wolf Came Really

I like Maroon 5, Swedish House Mafia and others. Jose Feliciano

Others Mafia Like House Swedish