Jose Feliciano

I'm a one-man band!

— Jose Feliciano

I loved John Lennon, by the way.

— Jose Feliciano

I'm in a museum. I'm a relic.

— Jose Feliciano

I was a teen idol in Latin America.

— Jose Feliciano

I truly enjoyed the '60s.

— Jose Feliciano

I sang the National Anthem with soul.

— Jose Feliciano

I just do my thing, what I feel.

— Jose Feliciano

I have very heightened senses - not just my hearing but my sense of smell.

— Jose Feliciano

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

— Jose Feliciano

I write with my brain. I don't need a computer.

— Jose Feliciano

I always tell my wife she's married to the Puerto Rican Elvis.

— Jose Feliciano

I like Maroon 5, Swedish House Mafia and others.

— Jose Feliciano

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

— Jose Feliciano

I didn't write Feliz Navidad to make a lot of money for me.

— Jose Feliciano

It is always good to make new friends.

— Jose Feliciano

I think sighted people let their eyes cheat them out of certain things. People who can see don't have a great sense…

— Jose Feliciano

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

— Jose Feliciano

My parents did not want us to lose our culture and our language. And that was a good thing.

— Jose Feliciano

Pioneers will always get the stones, when everyone later gets the accolades.

— Jose Feliciano

I always wanted to be the first true Latino to break the American barrier, to be on the American charts.

— Jose Feliciano

People are really surprised by the fact that I keep in touch with the latest trends rather than retreating to the distant…

— Jose Feliciano

As a Hispanic American, this country has done a lot for me, and I think that people have to be more grateful…

— Jose Feliciano

Playing guitar was a calling, but I never realized that it was going to be a career. It was just something I…

— Jose Feliciano

One day I heard Ray Charles on the radio and I found out he was blind. I thought, 'You know what, if…

— Jose Feliciano

When I did the national anthem, I did a soulful, kind of gospel-y version, but it was controversial with the war veterans,…

— Jose Feliciano

I have no regrets, though I was the first artist to stylize the national anthem, and I got a lot of protests…

— Jose Feliciano

I'm not like other guitar players. In fact, I'm not even like most acoustic players because I use the nylon-string acoustic. I…

— Jose Feliciano

It taught the English to speak Spanish and it taught the Spanish to speak English. If we had more songs such as…

— Jose Feliciano

In 1966 I recorded my first bolero album. I was about 18 years old then and I recorded it because I wanted…

— Jose Feliciano

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

I felt bad about the controversy because they stopped playing my songs on American radio stations. But there was nothing wrong with…

— Jose Feliciano

I know Ritchie Valens in 1959 had 'La Bamba' but to be totally Spanish - because, you know, Ritchie didn't speak Spanish…

— Jose Feliciano

I didn't mean for it to cause such a furor, but I was the first guy to ever do the national anthem…

— Jose Feliciano

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

— Jose Feliciano

I didnt go to the high school prom. Couldn't get a date.

— Jose Feliciano

If I were to travel with all my instruments, I would need a truck.

— Jose Feliciano

From 1969 to 1973, I was never played on radio stations.

— Jose Feliciano

You can't write much quality, original music on a concertina.

— Jose Feliciano

God gave me a good voice. I have perfect pitch. I don't sing flat.

— Jose Feliciano

Everyone is my equal, and that is transferred to my music.

— Jose Feliciano