Compay Segundo Quotes (13 quotes)

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„Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying.“
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„When you here a conjunto and you hear another conjunto, you think it's like a continuation of the first. It's all the same, same, same. There's no variety, just the same music.“
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„Ry Cooder for me is a master, a great master that has a wonderful feel for Cuban music. He's also paid tribute my talent a bit, even though I don't know half of what he knows.“
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„As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored.“
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„Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.“
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„The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age.“
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„In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation.“
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„Everyone should have a philosophy for living better.“
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„I've done a lot of things away from my homeland.“
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„Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture.“
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„I am still simple, just as if I were beginning.“
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„My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.“
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„I play music the way it was played in yesteryear.“
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Author information

Compay Segundo
Author born: November 18, 1907
Author died: July 13, 2003
Nationality: Cuban
Author Profession: Musician

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