Henry Garza Quotes (25 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Thats why it feels so good right now to receive these blessings that weve been blessed with, which is the people really digging the music, dude, because thats what its about for us. Its 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.

We used to be invited on stage with our father's band to sing that song when we were children,

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 call

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

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

I got down on my knees and started crying and started praying, and the good Lord told me to start writing it down.Talking about the inspiration for the hit song Heaven, from their self-titled album