- Man
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- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 - but I felt good that I opened the door.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is always good to make new friends.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just happened to be Latino, and like any artist, I was trying to forge a career. If I opened doors for others, that's great, but nobody starts out with those aspirations.
- Baseball
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think Hank Greenberg thought of himself as the first Jewish baseball player - he was a baseball player who happened to be Jewish. I'm an artist who happens to be Latin.
- Musicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a wonderful thing to play with symphony orchestras - I've played with many - but it's really special in Israel because you have so many great musicians.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been a fan of Elvis since I was 11, so for me, it was a real thrill to make an album of all my favorite Elvis songs.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, my guitar has always been my orchestra.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are really surprised by the fact that I keep in touch with the latest trends rather than retreating to the distant past.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very few guitarists play nylon-string. They don't know how to get the sound out of them. That's something I've spent a lot of time on.
- Bread
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 do play steel-string and the electric guitar, too, because I love rock 'n' roll and guitarists like Jimi Hendrix. But my bread and butter has always been the nylon-string.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 15, I became an avid fan of Andres Segovia. He brought so much respectability to the guitar.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first heard Bob Dylan, I'll be honest, I didn't like him. But I was shallow of mind and didn't understand the poetry. I just judged him on his singing and his guitar playing.
- Played
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- Nov 07, 2020
From 1969 to 1973, I was never played on radio stations.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pioneers will always get the stones, when everyone later gets the accolades.
- National Anthem
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sang the National Anthem with soul.
- I Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just do my thing, what I feel.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
The day I stop learning and I don't try to make myself better on the guitar, that's the day I hang it up and say, 'Goodbye.'
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did whole Latin albums and it was like Beatlemania for me in the Latin world, the screaming girls, not being able to leave the hotel, at the airport met by screaming fans. That was something!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my career took off it surprised me, I was only 22. To have that much success so fast, I just wasn't prepared.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you've had a chance to live some experiences then you can really write, and not having lived that much when I was young I didn't have much to write about. Now having seen life, the songs seem to come easier.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I did the anthem, I did it with the understanding in my heart and mind that I did it because I'm a patriot. I was trying to be a grateful patriot. I was expressing my feelings for America when I did the anthem my way instead of just singing it with an orchestra.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no regrets, though I was the first artist to stylize the national anthem, and I got a lot of protests for it. I have no regrets. America has been good to me. I'm glad that I'm here.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt bad about the controversy because they stopped playing my songs on American radio stations. But there was nothing wrong with what I did. Now everybody sings the national anthem the way they want.
- Heat
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now everybody has been doing the national anthem in their own style, but in 1968 I was the one that took the heat. It cut my career for quite a while.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents did not want us to lose our culture and our language. And that was a good thing.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020