Music Quotes by Sixto Rodriguez

I used protest music as a vehicle.

— Sixto Rodriguez

I've been chasing music since I was 16.

— Sixto Rodriguez

I chose music and that's what I do.

— Sixto Rodriguez

My work is more to me than just music.

— Sixto Rodriguez

Music is a living art.

— Sixto Rodriguez

The film, 'Searching For Sugar Man,' has excited my music career.

— Sixto Rodriguez

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

— Sixto Rodriguez

My entry level has always been pretty high in the music business.

— Sixto Rodriguez

In the '60s and '70s, a protest song was a genre in music.

— Sixto Rodriguez

I don't much listen to music as I study it: who's doing what, who wrote it.

— Sixto Rodriguez

I'm a musical political, I tend to stick to what I see happening outside my front door.

— Sixto Rodriguez

I stopped chasing the music dream back in '74.

— Sixto Rodriguez

I got my style. I got my own way of playing. I'm a musician. I'm self-taught.

— Sixto Rodriguez

That's the way I always listened to music. I'd listen and copy it. I play by ear so that's easier than reading.

— Sixto Rodriguez

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

— Sixto Rodriguez

I'm not a visual guy. I'm audio. I'm a musician. I know what I do. I play guitar, and in my category…

— Sixto Rodriguez

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

— Sixto Rodriguez

I've only written 30 songs or something. Dylan's written over 500 songs. There's no comparison. He's the Shakespeare of rock 'n' roll…

— Sixto Rodriguez

Musicians do music for the girls. We do music for the money. We do music for the recognition, for the rock and…

— Sixto Rodriguez

Some bands don't do covers. I love music. I've done the '40s, the '50s, 'the '60s, the '70s, the '80s, the '90s,…

— Sixto Rodriguez

Solomon was a musician and David was a musician, so it's a profession that I take seriously.

— Sixto Rodriguez

I always had my guitar; I worked at writing some songs. I always played music - in the house. I sang to…

— Sixto Rodriguez

I like to say that I do covers of my own songs. And I have about a dozen bands all over the…

— Sixto Rodriguez

All my life, I never gave up on music and though there was a lot of disappointment for some that the commercial…

— Sixto Rodriguez

There are no guarantees in the music field. There's a lot of rejection, a lot of criticism and a lot of disappointment.…

— Sixto Rodriguez

Music is a living art. You re-create it.

— Sixto Rodriguez

I never left music, I just left the music scene.

— Sixto Rodriguez

There are beautiful songs people write about love and dancing. But it's political issues that should be addressed.

— Sixto Rodriguez

Musicians want to be heard. So I'm not hiding. But I do like to leave it there onstage and be myself, in…

— Sixto Rodriguez