Chi Chi Rodriguez Quotes

Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it.

Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

I wanna go play my music in a club.

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad. You exist in a bubble. There comes a point where you suddenly feel not really a part of the world, you're just passing through.

I joined a band to hit things.

We're a rock group. we're noisy, rowdy, sensational and weird.

We didn't have a garage to rehearse in. We had to aggravate the folks in the house. But I got a chance to play in a beer joint, and that's how it started.

The fact that I'm often pushing my voice as hard as I can is from playing in nightclubs in Albuquerque where you don't have a good sound system.

He was lost out there. He was the lost Mohegan.

Lightning Bolt and Hella are two bands I listen to, and there's a lot of finger tapping going on there.

I just feel very often like a child in an absolutely weird world. I think that life is quite weird sometimes.

The problem is I don't know anything or anyone. I am so focused on the immediate picture in front of me.

I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.

Let there be bass.

Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.

If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

Most of the time, I'm a little bewildered or sort of feel out of place.

The world is full of sounds. We just don't usually hear them as music.

The first time I heard rock'n'roll on a big sound system would have been at a fairground at the seaside. That's a hell of a sensory experience right there.

I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in any direction. I have not even any defense to offer for standing on this platform, holding on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into shop windows. Nobody asks me to put up a defense, indeed, but that is irrelevant.

Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me

I´m a stranger in a strange land.

You can know the whole world and still feel lost in it.