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" 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. "
Good Things
Desire
You
" As long as your heart beats, one is never too old. "
Old
Heart
Long
" Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say. "
People
Because
Say
" 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. "
Looking Back
Looking
You
" Cubans are frantic when it comes to appreciating music. "
Appreciating
Frantic
Music
" Everyone should have a philosophy for living better. "
Philosophy
Better
Everyone
" 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. "
Time
Talk
Singing
" 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. "
Night
Sleep
I Am
" I am still simple, just as if I were beginning. "
Still
Simple
Just
" 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. "
Hope
Waiting
Strong
" I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave. "
Only
Grave
Stop
" I'm still strong and in the best shape to continue living my life. "
Strong
Living
Life
" In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation. "
Moderation
Experience
Old
" I play music the way it was played in yesteryear. "
Play Music
Music
Play
" I've done a lot of things away from my homeland. "
Homeland
Done
Things
" My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music. "
Music
Loving
Dedication
" 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. "
Know
Talent
Feel
" The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age. "
Music
Age
Because
" The roots of Cuban music are in my head. "
Roots
Music
Head
" 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. "
Unite
Culture
Man
" When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba. "
Musicians
Cuba
Like
" 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. "
You
Like
Music
" 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. "
Travel
Ending
Beginning
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