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"When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba."
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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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"What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting."
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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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"Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good."
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"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."
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"The wise musicians are those who play what they can master."
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"I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each."
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"I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them."
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"Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song."
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"When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba."
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"My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music."
Music
"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."
Music
"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."
Music
"When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba."
Musicians
"I'm still strong and in the best shape to continue living my life."
Life
"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
"The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age."
Age
"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
"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."
Life
"In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation."
Experience
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