henry garza

Who knew that he was gonna be a drummer We just freaked out. It's weird, and it's a blessing. ... He was the hyper guy of the family, and the baby, too. My dad said he needed ... something to use all that energy. The first 30 minutes he started playing, we knew it was meant to be.

- Henry Garza Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Our music isn't black or white or brown. It comes from the heart, which beats red.

- Henry Garza Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Music is in our blood. You come out of the womb, whether you like it or not, you're playing something.

- Henry Garza Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Music is in our blood. Itaas a family tradition. We got so much from our father. He taught us, and we just learned by listening to him. We canaat read music and we canaat read notes. Everything we play is by ear and by heart.

- Henry Garza Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

So where is Garza these days Back at that same auto-body repair shop - only now he and his brothers own it. We buy old cars and fix them up, ... It's something we like to do to get our minds off everything.

- Henry Garza Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I bought myself a pickup truck, a big one, four doors, with a DVD player for the kids. And I'm proud of it, because to be able to purchase something like that, it's just something we've never been able to do in our family, for generations. But when I bought it, man, I felt like I was stealing something.

- Henry Garza Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

So recording the song for Dora brings it all full circle. A song that children respond to and being a song from our past is a blast to share.

- Henry Garza Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I did go through a period of not knowing who I was, and just settling with being a Stevie Ray or Hendrix clone. You know what, though I realized that all of them were in me. And those guys wouldn't want me to just copy them. They were sharing their gift with me.

- Henry Garza Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

That kicked off quite a run for Los Lonely Boys. Their accessible, earthy brand of Latin-tinged rock earned rave reviews, with Henry Garza drawing favorable comparisons to Carlos Santana. Heaven ... a dream come true.

- Henry Garza Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

He opened the doors for people to really start seeing us. People want to see what Willie's digging. I never really, like, followed him that much, though being from here, of course I knew of him. I knew what he meant to music and to my dad. Dad always called himself a missing outlaw, so that's what Willie represented. We're actually living dad's dream. It is pretty amazing.

- Henry Garza Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

They played all kinds of stuff, and we liked that. With us, anything that hits our ears and our hearts and sounds good is an influence, new or old. Music we gather true meaning from is that old school. It's an oldies-rule-forever kind of deal with us Lonely Boys.

- Henry Garza Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The roads are pretty tough. It's a job that you've been blessed that you love doing, but it's hard work.

- Henry Garza Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Thataas why it feels so good right now to receive these blessings that weaave been blessed with, which is the people really digging the music, dude, because thataas what itaas about for us. Itaas not about trying to, not even make records or make money or be stars or anything like. We just want to play music and give it to the world. You give, you shall receive.

- Henry Garza Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We were kids still in school and playing 24 hours. We would get off school and then go do our homework in the bar right across the street and then play there until one or two in the morning and then grab a few hours' sleep before we went to school. Then the same thing repeated, man, over and over.

- Henry Garza Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We always played as a family together. . . . Music was what we did to bring smiles to people's faces and tears to their eyes and pay the light bill and whatever.

- Henry Garza Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You gotta have love for something in your life, ... Music is in our veins.

- Henry Garza Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We've worked really hard our whole lives to be where we're at today, ... It's not like something that we really wanted - we just wanted to be happy. Music was just survival. It was the way our family got through, and paid the phone bill and the light bill and got shoes for someone.

- Henry Garza Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Dad started playing when he was 8. I've been playing since I was 4 years old and started writing songs when I was about 5. Same thing with Jojo. He was 5 or 6 when he picked up the guitar.

- Henry Garza Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In Jesus's name we pray, In God we trust, and in La Familia we believe.

- Henry Garza Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Being a freshman, her upside is tremendous. We watched the other singles matches today. With us being a brand-new school and nobody knowing her or our school, she wasn't able to get a seed. Having seen everybody else play, she would have been in the top three.

- Henry Garza Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We're really a family before we are a band. Being a band and all, that's just a plus, we're that close. We'll be on the road for months at a time and then we'll be home and we'll see each other the next day and it's like we never saw each other.

- Henry Garza Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We stood out. Me and my brother JoJo were the only two Mexicans in our whole school, and so was my little brother, in elementary school. We would have people come up to us and say, 'What are you' and we would say, 'Well, what are you We're just human like you' They would just freak out. They thought we were Indians or Arabs or Iranians or something.

- Henry Garza Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We try to give a taste of all different flavors. Because when you have a burrito, you don't want just meat -- you want onions and peppers too

- Henry Garza Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes