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Quotes by Cuban Authors
"A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots."
"I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American."
"I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course."
"He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief."
"I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner."
"You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that."
"I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school."
"I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity."
"I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer."
"It's typical of record companies. They sign you because you're unique, and then they want to put you in a mold so they can sell records."
"You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them."
"A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set."
"My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread."
"I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ."
"Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded."
"Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making."
"There's something about prime time television and the way the song is going to come off on the air. I'm very concerned, very self-conscious about that."
"Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas."
"I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes."
"Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon."
"Oh, yeah, I've always thought of covering some of my influences like Billy Joel, Elton John, Stevie Wonder."
"Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and uncles that I've never met before, you know, that I've left behind."
"Well, you know, I left Cuba as a kid when I was 6 years old back in 1971."
"To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly."
"We may train or peek for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport."
"I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century."
"In 83 I thought we were going to go all the way. We had Roy Smalley, and Steve King, and good players."
"A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past."
"Be very strong... be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion."
"I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also."
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