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There were screaming girls, I had to learn as a blind person how to run to a limousine otherwise they'd take my clothes off and stuff. I thought to myself 'how could this happen?' I mean I could see it, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, but Jose Feliciano? It was a mystery to me.
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When I was a kid, I could make music out of anything, whether it be a rubber band, a tin can. Whatever it was I made music out of it and so that was my knack.
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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 entertaining, as long as the good Lord lets me. That is my life.
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I got so big in the Latin market, it was a bit like being Elvis Presley. The limousines, the screaming girls - stuff I wasn't used to.
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I think I am different from most blind people because my agility is not that of a blind person - I don't shuffle my feet when I walk. In fact, I have no, as I call them, 'blindisms.'
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I think sighted people let their eyes cheat them out of certain things. People who can see don't have a great sense of smell because they don't use it.
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I have very heightened senses - not just my hearing but my sense of smell.
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The only thing I can say to the people of Israel is that I love them and I am a strong ally.
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I contend that if it wasn't for Jimi, the gadgets we use for electric guitars now wouldn't have happened. He was an inventor, in a sense - as well as being great artist.
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I don't know if it's a legacy, but I love it. In my mind and other people's minds, they know I was the first to stylize the national anthem.
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I got tired of seeing people rush through the national anthem so they could have their popcorn and get to the game. Nobody ever sang the anthem with soul. It was always done clinically and they always stuck to the original. I put feeling into it. I sang it in a soulful manner.
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I was drawn to the guitar, and still am, because it struck me as the most soulful instrument.
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I never knew Mother Teresa, but I admired her, especially in this day and age when there aren't many heroes.
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Feliz Navidad' has interfaced the English and Spanish cultures to come together and after all, we're living in a multi-cultural world.
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Music made me feel like I was sexy. Music made me feel like I wasn't just a blind guy.
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Actually, being blind is not so bad. If you're born this way, you never know anything else and you don't wonder about it. Though I'd hate to have lost my sight after being able to see.
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I thought I'd be spending my life making brooms, mops, chairs and things. That's fine for some blind people, but I wanted something more out of life. Music seemed the best way.
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RCA wanted me to change my name. They asked me around 1965, when they first signed me. They said, 'Feliciano is too Latin.' I said, 'That's who I am. I'm Jose Feliciano.' They wanted me to change my name to Joe Phillips.
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I always wanted to be the first true Latino to break the American barrier, to be on the American charts.
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I didn't have romances when I was in school. Girls didn't want to go out with me because I was blind.
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I was the first artist to put the national anthem on the charts, and I'm thrilled.
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When I did the national anthem, I did a soulful, kind of gospel-y version, but it was controversial with the war veterans, just the people who wanted to hear it the old, clinical, atmospheric way, and I didn't want to sing it like that.
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If I've influenced people, so be it, but I don't dwell on those kinds of things. I just put out my music. If I influence someone without knowing it, I'm happy about it. I try not to think about those things because it's not about me.
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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.
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When my career took off it surprised me, I was only 22. To have that much success so fast, I just wasn't prepared.
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No one can pigeon-hole me because I play everything, and I did that on purpose.
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