Compay Segundo Quotes

#1. I play music the way it was played in yesteryear.

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#2. I'm still strong and in the best shape to continue living my life.

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#3. Everybody wants to save the world but nobody wants to help mom with the dishes.

P. J. O'Rourke

#4. I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes.

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#5. 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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#6. CHARADE PARADE
A 'Special Day' once a year creates an excuse for neglect on the other 365 days for mothers, fathers & veterans

Kamil Ali

#7. 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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#8. In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation.

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

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#10. I run because I enjoy it - not always, but most of the time. I run because I have always run - not trained, but run. What do I get? Joy and pain. Good health and injuries. Exhilaration and despair. A feeling of accomplishment and a feeling of waste. The sunrise and the sunset.

Amby Burfoot

#11. You should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is, because this is all part of experience, and the more experience you have, the better it is ... unless it kills you, and then you know you have gone too far.

Alice Neel

#12. I've done a lot of things away from my homeland.

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#13. 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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#14. Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other's survival means our own death. How do you side step that?

Suzanne Collins

#15. It can be held certain that information that is withheld or suppressed contains truths that are detrimental to the persons involved in the suppression.

J. Edgar Hoover

#16. Everyone should have a philosophy for living better.

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#17. 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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#18. Cubans are frantic when it comes to appreciating music.

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#19. Adam snorted as he pulled on a faded green t-shirt that said "I Heart Coyotes." Yet another sign that folding my clean clothes wasn't too big a price to pay to make him happy. He didn't have any "I Heart Christy " shirts or I would have burned them already.

Patricia Briggs

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

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#21. 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 travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now I'm just beginning, never ending.

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#22. My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.

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#23. Because the Bible is a theological book, it is a book of wrestlings, not a book of answers. In each age the people have to struggle to hear the word of the Lord for their time, and sometimes their hearing is keener than at other times.

Verna J. Dozier

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

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#26. I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.

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#27. Obsessed people are not humorless at all.

Philippe Petit

#28. I am still simple, just as if I were beginning.

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#29. When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba.

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#30. Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say.

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#31. 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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#32. The roots of Cuban music are in my head.

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