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Compay Segundo

"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."

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"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."

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Akiroq Brost

"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"How many homes are broken because of men and women who are unfaithful! God will not hold you guiltless! There is a day of reckoning. “Be sure your sin will find you out” (Numbers 32:23 ESV). They will find you out in your own family life here in your relationship with your mate, they will find you out in the life to come."

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"The Bible teaches that whether we are saved or lost, there is conscious and everlasting existence of the soul and personality."

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"I find beauty in every sacred moment."

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"People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet theirs."

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"Life is not judged just by the heart beats, but by the way you accept and overcome the challenges of life."

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"Life and death is not a do-it-yourself project."

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"No matter how much you exercise, no matter how many vitamins or health foods you eat, no matter how low your cholesterol, you will still die-someday. If you knew the moment and manner of your death in advance, would you order your life differently?"

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"The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the cars. There was almost always a man and a women, staring straight ahead, not talking. It was, finally, for everyone, a matter of waiting. You waited and you waited- for the hospital, the doctor, the plumber, the madhouse, the jail, papa death himself. First the signal red, then the signal was green. The citizens of the world ate food and watched t.v. and worried about their jobs or lack of the same, while they waited."

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"The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free."

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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."
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"My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music."
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"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."
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"When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba."
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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."
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"The roots of Cuban music are in my head."
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"I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave."
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"I am still simple, just as if I were beginning."
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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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