There are no guarantees in the music field. There's a lot of rejection, a lot of criticism and a lot of disappointment. You have to be prepared for that. And after 1973, it just wasn't happening for me.

More Quotes by Sixto Rodriguez

I chose music and that's what I do.

I live below my means. I think that's a good discipline because you never can tell.

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

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

In the '60s and '70s, a protest song was a genre in music.

All my life, I never gave up on music and though there was a lot of disappointment for some that the commercial thing never happened, it has never been a disappointment for me.