A biography for Sixto Rodriguezhasn’t been written yet.
“I loved Jimmy Reed, the chord changes, the lyrics.”
“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.”
“I'm born and bred out of Detroit. Detroit is an interesting place. You've got to be from somewhere.”
“You see there's music and there's the music business - and they're different.”
“I always like to say that you've got to... use all your talent.”
“I'm lucky. It's okay that success has come later to me, because I might have burned up if it had happened earlier.”
“There's no shame in hard work.”
“My work is more to me than just music.”
“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.”
“Solomon was a musician and David was a musician, so it's a profession that I take seriously.”
“The Isley Brothers, there's a group that stays together because they're a family band.”
“I got my style. I got my own way of playing. I'm a musician. I'm self-taught.”
“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.”
“Barriers are being brought down by technology through the Internet.”
“I've been chasing music since I was 16.”
“I was skeptical about the whole idea of my being in a film.”
“I like people who can write and sing, and play an instrument.”
“Music is a living art.”
“I loved the Woody Guthrie tradition of speaking about what's happening to the country.”
“In Detroit there are a lot of houses they are going to demolish because no one is taking care of them.”