100 Quotes by Jose Feliciano

I just do my thing, what I feel.

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

No one can pigeon-hole me because I play everything, and I did that on purpose.

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!

When my career took off it surprised me, I was only 22. To have that much success so fast, I just wasn't prepared.

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.

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.

I like Maroon 5, Swedish House Mafia and others.

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.