Jose Gonzalez Quotations

We are probably in better shape than we were last year, ... Our chances to go all the way are very good. Right now, I don't think there isn't a way we can't make it to the playoffs and hopefully the finals.

When your hair is rising, that's when you know it's a good song - that's happened to me with some artists and some songs, John Lennon songs or when Nina Simone sings. It's great to make those moments yourself.

We always had a guitar at home, but it wasn't until I was 14 when I picked it up myself when my father handed me these sheets of music of the Beatles and some other classics. That's where I learned all the chords and learned how to play and sing at the same time.

When those projects started, the builders, the developers could not find the labor force. And as the word got out it traveled fast, and so people started coming. As people started coming, they said, 'Hey, there's a lot of work here,' and so that's what sort of triggered it.

On the one hand you have the need for this type of employee. On the other hand you have a flawed, broken immigration system that doesn't recognize there is a need for these types of workers.

I grew up with a strong Spanish influence. I tried to learn flamenco when I was younger. But it's like my teacher said: 'It takes a lifetime to learn flamenco.'

I can live for my music, but I don't need to be recognized everywhere.

But there's a lot of eyes out there now, with the (Army) Corps of Engineers and all the contractors, so I suspect if something happened again, we'd know pretty soon, ... Then we'd get busy mobilizing our people.

I always start with the music and then try to figure out what I want to write about lyrically.

He's done so much for me and I don't know how to thank him for it. He's worked for me for a long time.

He keeps getting better all the time, and today he was sharp. It was a good field and this was a good win.

I would say the vast majority are not in a day labor-type scenario. Contractors and employers have a need for good workers, and once they find them they keep them.

I think we have to use it real wisely because if not, we'll be just wasting a lot of money just throwing it away.

I think Sweden is known for people being a bit more quiet than other cultures, and I guess it's a mixture: shyness and leaving room for other people to talk. Of course, when people get drunk, all of that disappears.

People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.

I think I've become more aware of aging in the last couple of years because of friends dying of cancer or friends' parents dying and myself - I'm still healthy, but I'm aging, and that's something that I think about more, even though I shouldn't be too concerned.

That was the most important thing to see this weekend, to see where we are at. If we stay together as a team this year, we're going to do very well. I can't see us not making the playoffs.

We just played an ugly game. Nothing went right. Even though we won, the way we played our game wasn't to our standards. It was just ugly.

We controlled most of the game. It took us a while to settle down. But once we did, we were all right. Now we have the toughest part of our schedule coming up.

Ever since I released my first album, I've tried not to use minor chords as the main element in songs. The way I sing is too melancholic.

I started playing the guitar when I was 14. I'm not superstitious about guitars, but I do need strings to be old because that's part of my sound, and I don't like steel strings.

I speak Swedish, it's my first language. Of course, growing up with Latin American parents from Argentina, I also have some other influences from other cultures. But Sweden is where I feel the most at home.

The music that I'm known for is quiet and gentle, although when I was growing up and as a teenager, I was playing the opposite - I was screaming and playing bass and those loud electric guitars.

Once we saw the families suffering, being separated, that's really when we started becoming involved in this movement.

This day is celebrated 40 days after Christmas and marks the end of the Christmas season for us. It celebrates the day baby Jesus was presented at the temple by Mary and Joseph.

Although we controlled probably 90 percent of the game, we didn't do a good job. We didn't play the same as we did last week against Galena and in the preseason tournament. We didn't play the way we're supposed to play.

Although the probability of a big impact is very small, for the first time in human history we have the means of avoiding such a catastrophic event. But it is essential that we improve our knowledge of asteroids. We must know in detail the internal structure of asteroids, and how they respond to impacts before we can design effective mitigation methods.

It pretty much makes it virtually impossible for a thief to steal your car without the correct key.

It's almost exclusively the jobs ? people are going where the jobs are.

The album has just been re-released in the US so I'll be touring for sometime.

It lends itself (to hiring illegals) certainly more than at an office desk somewhere. The contractors understand and know it and are willing to take the risks. Not because these folks want to break the law, but because they have no alternatives.

It was a big surprise when I started to get attention in Sweden, going from biochemistry studies to touring and living from music only. There were a couple of years while I went to university when I was OK with thinking of music as just a nice recreation.

I love you, Mommy, you're going to be okay. I'll be waiting for you here, okay?

I guess I am actually quite shy, and I've always felt very self-conscious during interviews.

I listened to all the Misfits albums growing up and Red Hot Chili Peppers, too.

I'm a very slow reader - I read maybe three or four books a year - so I listen to podcasts and the occasional audiobook, and I watch TED talks.

If you're not critical about your history, that can be a problem because there are religious leaders, politicians and all kinds of powerful people who can take advantage of a population that isn't really thinking.

I really regret my decision of not playing,

I don't want to be too harsh, but there's very little evidence for 'intelligent design' or any sort of creator.

I let the music set the tone of the lyrics.I allowed myself to write more about relationships and emotions, in a girly way almost.

It can be a bit frustrating to always get the soft-rock stamp.

We always get back to old soul singers like Nina Simone, and how her recordings sound. Also new music like Tobacco, or people that use a mixture of analog and electronic music.

Swords and knives make me feel vulnerable.

Live, love, wonder, and be nice!

I like mixing or combining hobby and pleasure with work and have-tos.

I aim for weekly routines with clear goals but make sure I do some stuff that I think I'll value in the long run.

I can change, I can grow.

I am me, whatever that means. I am conscious.

Love is just chemicals.

Democracy, like life, is hard to learn and doesn't have a teacher,

Postpartum depression is very, very common but a lot of people just don't recognize that they have it. A lot of physicians also don't ask (patients) about it, so it's a problem from both sides,

Strive for a life well lived. Each one with their own aims, preferences, and meaning. Always, of course, without harming other persons or preventing others from being able to form a good life for themselves.

They really don't know where the future lies. If developers decide to build a high-rise where the McCormick building is, they'd have nowhere to go.

I love entertaining Korean people with traditional songs from Ecuador . It has been an exceptional, new experience for me to perform in Korea and I enjoyed so much.

My show is an anti-show and the audience have to want to listen. I'm sitting down, there's only one of me, I don't talk much to the audience and it is very quiet. I wouldn't be able to do that kind of show if people didn't know me and my material.