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I'll only stop singing when I'...

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

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The roots of Cuban music are i...

The roots of Cuban music are in my head.

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Towns are suffering from all t...

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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I don't sit in the corner wait...

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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I am a scholar of life. Every ...

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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Everyone should have a philoso...

Everyone should have a philosophy for living better.

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As long as your heart beats, o...

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

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I am still simple, just as if ...

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

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Young people don't want to be ...

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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Every time I talk about this, ...

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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Because people are very intere...

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

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When you here a conjunto and y...

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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Ry Cooder for me is a master, ...

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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I've done a lot of things away...

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

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As far as pleasures, you've go...

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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And now I'm just beginning, ne...

And now I'm just beginning, never ending.

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Look how many years I had to w...

Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing.

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Young people don't want to be ...

Young people don't want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star.

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When it comes to musicians, I'...

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

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The music that I play and that...

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

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