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Compay Segundo

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

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

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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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"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."

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"I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together."

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"I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios."

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"All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds."

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"I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted."

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"I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each."

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"Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts."

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"When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30."

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