Music is in our blood. You come out of the womb, whether you like it or not, you're playing something. |
Our music isn't black or white or brown. It comes from the heart, which beats red. |
She probably doesn't realize what this means to our school and our program. |
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. |
That’s why it feels so good right now to receive these blessings that we’ve been blessed with, which is the people really digging the music, dude, because that’s what it’s about for us. It’s 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. |
The roads are pretty tough. It's a job that you've been blessed that you love doing, but it's hard work. |
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 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. |
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. |
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 used to be invited on stage with our father's band to sing that song when we were children, |
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. |
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. |
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. |
When we were old enough, he took us out there, and we tried to do it, too, man. We improved musically, but as far as getting anywhere, I can't really say that Nashville was the place. |