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"When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba."
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"We're all players and musicians and we sure all get along good. We just clicked right off the bat. We started playing and then we almost immediately started recording."
"There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away."
"I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues."
"If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians."
"I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them."
"Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians."
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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."
"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."
"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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