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
When my career took off it surprised me, I was only 22. To have that much success so fast, I just wasn't prepared. — 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
Playing guitar was a calling, but I never realized that it was going to be a career. It was just something I… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
Now everybody has been doing the national anthem in their own style, but in 1968 I was the one that took the… — 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
