I just happened to be Latino, and like any artist, I was trying to forge a career. If I opened doors for… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
I have no regrets, though I was the first artist to stylize the national anthem, and I got a lot of protests… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
I contend that if it wasn't for Jimi, the gadgets we use for electric guitars now wouldn't have happened. He was an… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
I know Ritchie Valens in 1959 had 'La Bamba' but to be totally Spanish - because, you know, Ritchie didn't speak Spanish - but to be a total Latin artist like myself, to be out in a field where there weren't any categories for Latinos... I felt good that I was maybe - I didn't know it at the time… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share
I was the first artist to put the national anthem on the charts, and I'm thrilled. — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
I take pride in the fact that I was the first Hispanic artist to really crack the English market. — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
I don't think Hank Greenberg thought of himself as the first Jewish baseball player - he was a baseball player who happened… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
I made history and nothing can besmirch that. Nothing can erase that. — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
RCA wanted me to change my name. They asked me around 1965, when they first signed me. They said, 'Feliciano is too Latin.' I… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
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… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
Music. It has always showed me that I could do what the other kids couldn't do. So I will keep playing and singing and… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
I felt bad about the controversy because they stopped playing my songs on American radio stations. But there was nothing wrong with what I… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
No one can pigeon-hole me because I play everything, and I did that on purpose. — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
