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"When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba."
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"In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying."
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"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."
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"Both of my parents were musicians."
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"When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30."
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"It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg."
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"When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing."
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"I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not."
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"There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary."
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"The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification."
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"You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you."
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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."
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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."
Death
"Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say."
Poetry
"I play music the way it was played in yesteryear."
Music
"The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age."
Age
"As long as your heart beats, one is never too old."
Heart
"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."
Animals
"My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music."
Music
"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."
Desire
"Everyone should have a philosophy for living better."
Living
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