The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age.

- Compay Segundo

Young people don't want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to tr…

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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…

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As long as your heart beats, one is never too old.

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Cubans are frantic when it comes to appreciating music.

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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…

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I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.

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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 …

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The roots of Cuban music are in my head.

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