Quotes About Cuban Music

#1. Though one may acquire much in wealth, fame, or honor, the real joy of life does not lie there but, rather, in keeping the romance of living going. Nothing gives such complete and profound happiness as the perpetually fresh wonder and mystery of exciting life.

Norman Vincent Peale

#2. The roots of Cuban music are in my head.

Compay Segundo

#3. Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.

Rachel Kushner

#4. Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models.

Ruben Blades

#5. 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.

Compay Segundo

#6. There's no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have been denied the privilege.

Cary Grant

#7. Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.

Alejo Carpentier

#8. I tend to listen to country music more than Cuban music.

Ted Cruz

#9. In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.

Karen Salmansohn

#10. She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.

Gertrude Stein

#11. What others are doing or accomplishing is irrelevant to your growth.

Janet Gallagher Nestor

#12. The music is one of the beautiful things that has survived the Castro regime. I have played for audiences all over the world but I've never played for a Cuban audience. For [husband] Emilio and me, the music is the one tie to our homeland.

Gloria Estefan

#13. Sports, music, movies - basically, fans of any form of entertainment don't do a resume analysis before picking their favorite.

Mark Cuban

#14. If you can cope the pride when winning,
then you can confront despair when lose.

Toba Beta

#15. I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.

Callan McAuliffe

#16. 'The Discovery of France' by Graham Robb is teaching me lots about a country I've long loved but realise I didn't really know.

Diana Quick

#17. FACT 450: Ecstasy is often used in conjunction with other drugs such as marijuana, methamphetamine, cocaine, ketamine, and other drugs, making it even more dangerous.

Drugs: they're not a salad bar.

Cary McNeal

#18. The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

Lance Armstrong

#19. You're my hope for the future and my call to be a better man and I do hope one day you'll be my wife.

Noelle Adams

#20. I don't think anyone knew I could act until I put on a bathing suit.

Deborah Kerr

#21. I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.

Alejo Carpentier

#22. Yes thats what I done you sorry sods I over the fents and off with the dogs...

Russell Hoban

#23. Music is so essential to the Cuban character that you can't disentangle it from the history of the nation. the history of Cuban music is one of cultural collisions, of voluntary and forced migrations, of religions and revolutions.

Ned Sublette

#24. I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.

Andy Garcia

#25. It is harder to release a nation from servitude than to enslave a free nation.

Simon Bolivar

#26. One often reads that the 1950s was the golden age of Cuban music, but it was really one long phase, from 1937 to 1958, each year with its own splendour.

Ned Sublette