I went through the immigration thing. But when I got to New York it wasn't so tough for me. I went to… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
I thought I'd be spending my life making brooms, mops, chairs and things. That's fine for some blind people, but I wanted… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
The fact I'm blind has been a great help to my career. If I'd been sighted I'd have played baseball and got… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
Actually, being blind is not so bad. If you're born this way, you never know anything else and you don't wonder about… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
God did not want me to be a blind beggar on the street, alone and bitter. He gave me music, first to… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
There were screaming girls, I had to learn as a blind person how to run to a limousine otherwise they'd take my… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
I think I am different from most blind people because my agility is not that of a blind person - I don't… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Music made me feel like I was sexy. Music made me feel like I wasn't just a blind guy. — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
One day I heard Ray Charles on the radio and I found out he was blind. I thought, 'You know what, if… — 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
