Quotes from Sixto Rodriguez

I never left music, I just left the music scene.

Every 20 years or so, I feel that young people confront the same issues - a new war, new challenges.

The Isley Brothers, there's a group that stays together because they're a family band.

I'm not getting old, I'm getting dead.

Musicians want to be heard. So I'm not hiding. But I do like to leave it there onstage and be myself, in that sense. Because some people carry it with them.

Many of us come into the world with a clenched fist, but we all leave with an open hand.

I've had such an ordinary life.

I used protest music as a vehicle.

I don't like litter and blight.