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"When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba."
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"If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians."
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"Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now."
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"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."
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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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"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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"There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away."
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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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"The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band."
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"Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like."
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"And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound."
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"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."
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"Cubans are frantic when it comes to appreciating music."
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"I'm still strong and in the best shape to continue living my life."
Life
"I am still simple, just as if I were beginning."
Beginning
"The roots of Cuban music are in my head."
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"I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave."
Grave
"Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say."
Poetry
"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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"The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age."
Age
"I play music the way it was played in yesteryear."
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