Jose Feliciano Quotes

Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture, our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize.

They'll nail anyone who ever scratched his ass during the National Anthem.

I had so much backlash because, before in NXT, I used to come out with the Bulgarian national anthem. And people were like, 'Oh, why are you embarrassing the anthem?' How am I embarrassing the anthem? I'm from the freaking country.

Generally speaking, they [Americans] are not a people we should be proud to acknowledge as our relations.

I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticize themselves more than enough.

The American Motion Picture industry should do all that is within its power to upbuild and strengthen the spirit of Americanism within our people.

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.

All roads lead to 'American Pie.' 'As American as apple pie' was the saying. It was some kind of a big American song that I wanted to write, which would be a conclusion for my show and bring all the songs home, which it still does. I can go anywhere I want with American music and come home to that. And it all makes sense.

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.

Americans generally regard themselves as belonging to an exceptional nation. And in terms of living in a religiously tolerant and enormously diverse country, Americans can certainly take some justified pride.

We're Americans. It's a culture. We should defend that culture, and we should reinforce that culture.

I have no regrets about being who I am and being what I am in my country for my people. No regrets at all.

Americans tend to feel satisfied within the wide boundaries of that huge, big country.

I happen to love the patriotic songs of America.

Now everybody has been doing the national anthem in their own style, but in 1968 I was the one that took the heat. It cut my career for quite a while.

People say I should be running for a gold medal for the old red, white and blue and all that bull, but it's not gonna be that way.

Apartheid didn't impinge on music. It impinged on people's freedoms.

Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.

Standing up for what you believe in, to me, is freedom of speech. And that's a right that every American citizen has and what makes this country great.

I'm not really going to defend anyone's lyrics.

America is unique in the world. If you don't believe that, just ask someone from another country.

I don't necessarily feel like I'm American. I wouldn't know what that feels like.

When Colin Kaepernick refuses to stand for the anthem, that's both a sports story and a politics story.

Most Americans are exceptionalists; we think we live outside of history.

I think Americans are really patriotic people, so patriotism is something they can understand. I'm very patriotic about Brazil, my country, and that includes my language.