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"I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave."
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"Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block."

"Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull."

"I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive."

"We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave."

"They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more."

"You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave."

"I remember in Shallow Grave I remember a few times when we'd only have to do one take. But when you did have to do more than one, you'd build on the one you'd done."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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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