Top 32 Segundo Quotes
#1. He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear.
~Jose Aracadio Segundo Buendia
After the second banana slaughter
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#2. He was cold and tired, but he ignored the cold. Around him stars shone. Some bright, some dim, the most constant things in life. Segundo smiled up at them, happy at least to be dying among friends.
Orson Scott Card
#3. 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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#4. I'm still strong and in the best shape to continue living my life.
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#6. Cubans are frantic when it comes to appreciating music.
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#9. Everyone should have a philosophy for living better.
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#10. 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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#13. In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation.
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#14. 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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#15. If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn't matter; age, colour, c'mon!
Sam Taylor-Johnson
#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.
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#19. Between the innocence of boyhood and the dignity of manhood, we find a delightful creature called a boy ... A boy is truth with dirt on its face, beauty with a cut on its finger, wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.
Alan Beck
#20. 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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#21. The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age.
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#22. Tail wagging like a windscreen wiper in a downpour.
Louisa Bennet
#23. 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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#26. When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba.
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#27. Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say.
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#28. I'm a simple Jesus girl on a journey to finding deeper motivation than just a number on my scale for getting and staying healthy.
Lysa TerKeurst
#29. 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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#31. Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.
Rosalia De Castro
#32. 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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