A biography for Jose Felicianohasn’t been written yet.
“You can't write much quality, original music on a concertina.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.'”
“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.”
“I mean, it wasnt like I had said to myself beforehand, 'OK, I'm gonna go out there and sing 'The Star-Spangled Banner' in the weirdest way possible and cause a commotion.' I just sang it the way I felt it I sang it the only way I could.”
“I'm kind of iffy on the Latin Grammys because I think we fought so hard, for example, to get the American side of the Grammys to open categories for us... But I support the Latin Grammys in the sense I'm glad that we have them.”
“I never knew whether I'd make it as a star but I always wanted to.”
“Music made me feel like I was sexy. Music made me feel like I wasn't just a blind guy.”
“I like Maroon 5, Swedish House Mafia and others.”
“Pioneers will always get the stones, when everyone later gets the accolades.”
“One day I heard Ray Charles on the radio and I found out he was blind. I thought, 'You know what, if there's room for Ray, there might be room for Jose.'”
“As a Hispanic American, this country has done a lot for me, and I think that people have to be more grateful for what they have in this country.”
“Feliz Navidad' has interfaced the English and Spanish cultures to come together and after all, we're living in a multi-cultural world.”
“I don't think kneeling during the anthem is such a bad thing.”
“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.”
“God did not want me to be a blind beggar on the street, alone and bitter. He gave me music, first to be my companion and then to be my salvation.”
“I'm very proud being Puerto Rican. I'm American. That is what America is made of - people from different lands.”
“One thing about computers and iPhones is they're making people mentally lazy.”
“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.”