Quotes from Sixto Rodriguez

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.

I play guitar and I'm always trying to find out the latest kinds of riffs.

I enjoy room service.

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.

I got my style. I got my own way of playing. I'm a musician. I'm self-taught.

Barriers are being brought down by technology through the Internet.

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.

There's no blueprint for success in rock'n'roll.

I'm lucky. It's okay that success has come later to me, because I might have burned up if it had happened earlier.

The film, 'Searching For Sugar Man,' has excited my music career.

You either live under a rock or you walk in the sunshine. That's pretty much how it goes.

I stopped chasing the music dream back in '74.

I've been chasing music since I was 16.

I chose music and that's what I do.

I graduated from Wayne State University, but there's a whole lot you don't learn in school.

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.

Whenever I speak, I talk to the collective consciousness of my audience.

I like language, words. And I think the survival skills I've developed over the years have added a lot to my perspective.

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.

There are beautiful songs people write about love and dancing. But it's political issues that should be addressed.

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.

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.

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.

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.