Quotes by Compay Segundo - Page 1

The roots of Cuban music are in my head.
Compay Segundo / Singer
Music
Cuban
Cuban Music
Roots
Head
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I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.
Compay Segundo / Singer
Graves
Singing
Grave
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I am still simple, just as if I were beginning.
Compay Segundo / Singer
Ifs
Simple
Stills
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I've done a lot of things away from my homeland.
Compay Segundo / Singer
Done
Homeland
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I play music the way it was played in yesteryear.
Compay Segundo / Singer
Play Music
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As long as your heart beats, one is never too old.
Compay Segundo / Singer
Beats
Heart
Long
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Everyone should have a philosophy for living better.
Compay Segundo / Singer
Philosophy
Should
Should Have
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Cubans are frantic when it comes to appreciating music.
Compay Segundo / Singer
Appreciate
Cuban
Frantic
Appreciating
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I'm still strong and in the best shape to continue living my life.
Compay Segundo / Singer
Living My Life
Shapes
Strong
Life Best My Life
Shape
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When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba.
Compay Segundo / Singer
Cuba
Daddy
Musician
Musicians
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In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation.
Compay Segundo / Singer
Moderation
Old You
Order
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The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age.
Compay Segundo / Singer
Age
Play
Traditional
Traditional Music
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My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.
Compay Segundo / Singer
Dedication
Loving What You Do
Secret
Years
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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.
Compay Segundo / Singer
Bored
Desire
Good Things
Limits
Too Much
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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.
Compay Segundo / Singer
Grandmother
Pursue
Strong
Waiting
Corner
Extension
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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.
Compay Segundo / Singer
Evaluate
Every Night
Mistake
Night
Scholar
Sleep
Life I Am Me
Life Me Night
Analyze
Mistakes
Avoid
Detail
Helps
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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.
Compay Segundo / Singer
Cuban
Half
Paid
Talent
Tribute
Wonderful
Music Great Me
Master
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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.
Compay Segundo / Singer
Continuation
Variety
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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.
Compay Segundo / Singer
Cuba
Europe
Forgotten
Grandparent
Looking Back
Phenomenon
Rock Music
Rocks
Traditional Music
Youth
Towards
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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.
Compay Segundo / Singer
Men
Animal
Satisfied
Suffering
Towns
Animals
Unite
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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.
Compay Segundo / Singer
Travel
Song
Stars
Ending
Wait
Overnight
Roads
Young People
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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.
Compay Segundo / Singer
Able
Singers
Singing
Trombone
Drum
Microphone
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