Freddy Fender Quotations

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.

I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.

Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control.

Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.

I'm one year away from 70 and I've had a good run. I really believe I'm okay.

In my mind and in my heart, I feel okay. I cannot complain that I haven't lived long enough, but I'd like to live longer.

They wanted to start recording rock 'n roll, and thought I had the right voice.

I was dreaming I was on the Sullivan Show.

I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison.

My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.

He follows me very well, and sometimes I have to follow him, ... It just comes out good. The guy's good, you know. He's been around. And I've been around a long time, too.

Keeping it simple was my idea, ... I wanted the recording to sound like way back, before they used even drums.