Compay Segundo's Quotes
Born: 1907-11-18
Profession: Musician
Nation: Cuban
Biography of Compay Segundo
In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation.
Tags: Experience, Old, OrderI 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.
Tags: Life, Mistakes, SleepAs 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.
Tags: Bored, Far, GoodBecause people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say.
Tags: Interested, PoetryEveryone should have a philosophy for living better.
Tags: Everyone, Living, PhilosophyMy secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.
Tags: Music, Secret, WorkThe music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age.
Tags: Age, Maybe, MusicWhen it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba.
Tags: Daddy, Here, MusiciansCan 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.
Tags: Music, Rock, ThoughtEvery 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.
Tags: Put, Saying, TimeI 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.
Tags: Death, Hope, WaitingRy 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.
Tags: Great, Music, WonderfulTowns 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.
Tags: Cannot, Suffering, UntilWhen 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.
Tags: Another, Here, MusicYoung 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.
Tags: Travel, Wait, YoungMy father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM, and any item of consumption he would acquire was a direct measurement of his success in life. But that same equation wasn't going to work for me - I was quite clear about that in my early teens.
Tags: Life, Success, WorkOne often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by it. Even if people don't fully understand where my work is coming from, at least there's somebody who looks kind of sane standing in front of you and politely engaging with you. People react.
Tags: Art, Successful, Work