"The roots of Cuban music are in my head."

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"As long as your heart beats, one is never too old."

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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 music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age."

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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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"Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say."

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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."

Life

"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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"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."

"So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message."

"By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet."

"I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really."

"It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing."

"My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them."

"In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really 'about.'"

"I hear music as narrative."

"The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless."

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"As long as your heart beats, one is never too old."

"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."

"The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age."

"I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave."

"Everyone should have a philosophy for living better."

"Cubans are frantic when it comes to appreciating 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."

"Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say."

"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."

"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."