Jose Feliciano Quotes

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

I want to write about grown-up things.

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

Deeper things, heavier things happen to you as you get older and makes you more open.

I put all my big revelations into songs when I was in my 20s; as you get older, revelations are harder to come by.

The more mature you get and the more you understand about life, your picture gets clearer, the focus gets clear.

I think that as you get older, you mellow out a lot more. Having been through the ups and downs in life, I feel more qualified to play the blues.

As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I'm older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

The more you've lived, the more you've experienced, you emotionally know a lot more, especially if you haven't had a regular, straightforward kind of life.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

I believe all positive things and negative things are valuable because they shape you.

I think you get better as you get older.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.