Quotes by Sixto Rodriguez - Page 2

I did a lot of heavy-lifting - construction, demolition, that kind of thing. Dusty, dirty work.
Sixto Rodriguez / Musician
Construction
Dirty
Dirty Work
Dusty
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Music is not a spectator sport, you have to be involved - fully involved - or you get left behind.
Sixto Rodriguez / Musician
Spectator
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I'm born and bred out of Detroit. Detroit is an interesting place. You've got to be from somewhere.
Sixto Rodriguez / Musician
Detroit
Bred
Interesting Place
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Every 20 years or so, I feel that young people confront the same issues - a new war, new challenges.
Sixto Rodriguez / Musician
New Challenges
Confront
Young People
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In Detroit there are a lot of houses they are going to demolish because no one is taking care of them.
Sixto Rodriguez / Musician
Demolish
Detroit
Houses
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Where other people live in an artificial world, I feel I live in the real world. And nothing beats reality.
Sixto Rodriguez / Musician
Artificial
Beats
Real World
Reality World People
Where Reality World
The Real World
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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 / Musician
Music Always Way
Copy
Ear
Music Way Always
Listened
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There are beautiful songs people write about love and dancing. But it's political issues that should be addressed.
Sixto Rodriguez / Musician
Political Issues
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I'm lucky. It's okay that success has come later to me, because I might have burned up if it had happened earlier.
Sixto Rodriguez / Musician
Burned
Earlier
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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 I'm doing O.K.
Sixto Rodriguez / Musician
Audio
Visual
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I've been a candidate for office at least eight times. A couple times for mayor, state representative, city council.
Sixto Rodriguez / Musician
City Council
Council
Candidate
Couple Times
Mayor
Representative
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Was 'Crucify Your Mind' dedicated to anybody? No, it was a generalization. 'A Most Disgusting Song' is like that, too.
Sixto Rodriguez / Musician
Dedicated
Generalization
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I like language, words. And I think the survival skills I've developed over the years have added a lot to my perspective.
Sixto Rodriguez / Musician
Survival
Added
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I don't necessarily want a higher education, I want a wider education. I want to know everything and experience everything.
Sixto Rodriguez / Musician
Higher Education
Wider
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I don't mind going out to do my shows but I can still retreat back into my own private world, you know? And that is very key.
Sixto Rodriguez / Musician
Retreat
Private World
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My dad, he was my role model - my mom died when I was three - and the way we honor our parents is remembering their heritage.
Sixto Rodriguez / Musician
Heritage
Remembering
Role Model
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You want to know the secret of life? It is to breathe in and out. And the mystery of life? You never know when it is going to end.
Sixto Rodriguez / Musician
Breathe
Mystery
Secret
The Secret Of
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In the music business, there's a lot of criticism and rejection. If you embrace it, you'll be better off when the adjustment comes.
Sixto Rodriguez / Musician
Adjustment
Better Off
Criticism
Music Business
Rejection
Business Music Better
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I'm a worker, but I think that all workers get an idea of what to do to get free. Any kind of bondage, even economic bondage, is slavery.
Sixto Rodriguez / Musician
Bondage
Worker
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I learned that South Africa is a beautiful country with gorgeous people, and I got to see it from a different perspective than most people do.
Sixto Rodriguez / Musician
Beautiful Country
Different Perspective
Gorgeous
South Africa
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Drivers don't always see the (flashing) lights. You can't get tunnel vision. You've got to look everywhere, even when your adrenaline is going.
Sixto Rodriguez / Musician
Light
Tunnels
Vision
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I'm Mexican, and we do a lot of singing, and it was my brother's guitar that I'd practice on, and he would say, 'Who's that playing my guitar?'
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Mexican
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Some bands don't do covers. I love music. I've done the '40s, the '50s, 'the '60s, the '70s, the '80s, the '90s, the '00s, and I'm working on the '10s.
Sixto Rodriguez / Musician
Love Music Done
Covers
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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 and popular music.
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Comparison
Dylan
Popular Music
Shakespeare
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That late success has happened is OK. I'm grounded. I use my seniority to my advantage. That's helped me out. Who'd have thought? So, yeah. I'm a lucky guy.
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Grounded
Lucky Guy
Seniority
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Musicians want to be heard. So I'm not hiding. But I do like to leave it there onstage and be myself, in that sense. Because some people carry it with them.
Sixto Rodriguez / Musician
Hiding
Onstage
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Musicians do music for the girls. We do music for the money. We do music for the recognition, for the rock and roll history. But we also do it because it's fun.
Sixto Rodriguez / Musician
Recognition
Rock And Roll
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The social realism of ' Establishment Blues' or 'Like Janis,' are what I chose to use to express what was happening in the U.S. and what was happening to me personally.
Sixto Rodriguez / Musician
Establishment
Realism
Blues
Chose
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All my life, I never gave up on music and though there was a lot of disappointment for some that the commercial thing never happened, it has never been a disappointment for me.
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Disappointment
Life Music Me
All My Life
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My family, we're indigenous people from San Luis Potosi in Central Mexico. My father moved to Detroit and brought all of us because the automobile companies were paying great wages.
Sixto Rodriguez / Musician
Automobile
Detroit
Indigenous
Indigenous People
Mexico
Wages
Family Great Father
Family Great People
San
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There are no guarantees in the music field. There's a lot of rejection, a lot of criticism and a lot of disappointment. You have to be prepared for that. And after 1973, it just wasn't happening for me.
Sixto Rodriguez / Musician
Be Prepared
Criticism
Disappointment
Guarantees
Prepared
Rejection
Field
Happening
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I have a formal education, but there's a whole lot you don't learn in school. And you only have so much time to figure it out. No matter how cerebral, celestial, how ethnic, there's a span of time here.
Sixto Rodriguez / Musician
Celestial
Cerebral
Formal
Formal Education
Ethnic
Figure
So Much Time
Span
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I think that many of the issues they were facing in South Africa were the same as those I was singing about. Conscription, resisting the draft, government repression - I mentioned all those things in my songs.
Sixto Rodriguez / Musician
Government
Conscription
Repression
Resisting
Singing
South Africa
Africa
Draft
Facing
Mentioned
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I always had my guitar; I worked at writing some songs. I always played music - in the house. I sang to my daughters, I scribbled down some ideas. Actually I didn't always play music. I did leave it alone for some time too.
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Daughters
Alone Time Music
Sang
Play Music
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I've always covered some Dylan songs. I do one or two. And I do them because they're great songs. You know some people cover songs they wish they could have written, not me. I like to cover songs I know I could not have ever written.
Sixto Rodriguez / Musician
Covered
Dylan
Great Always Me
Great Me People
Great Songs
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I like to say that I do covers of my own songs. And I have about a dozen bands all over the world. That's no exaggeration. I have a South African band, an Australian band, Swedish bands, English bands, American bands. They're all notable musicians, too.
Sixto Rodriguez / Musician
Australian
Dozen
Exaggeration
Notable
Swedish
Covers
South African
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You can't get around certain stuff, whether it's in Darfur or on your block at home. What makes us political is your home turf, your family, your life space. You walk down the street, and automatically a human being is territorial, and political happens in that.
Sixto Rodriguez / Musician
Family
Home
Space
Block
Certain
Darfur
Stuff
Territorial
Turf
Life Family Home
Life Space Home
Around
Automatically
Down
Street
Walk
Human Being
Makes
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I know I did 'Establishment Blues,' and I said 'This is not a song it's an outburst' and I'd play it, I never did describe it as a rant - R-A-N-T - but the thing is it's exactly that. Sometimes it sounds like that, but there's a lot out there on the everyday man, on the plight of the little guy.
Sixto Rodriguez / Musician
Outburst
Plight
Rant
Blues
Describe
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