Compay Segundo Quotes

Everyone should have a philosophy for living better.

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

The roots of Cuban music are in my head.

When it comes to musicians, I’m like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba.

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.

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.

In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation.

I’ve done a lot of things away from my homeland.

Cubans are frantic when it comes to appreciating music.

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

Young people don’t want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now I’m just beginning, never ending.

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.