#si

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. ↗

— Compay Segundo

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I play music the way it was played in yesteryear. ↗

— Compay Segundo

#music #play #play music #played #way

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

— Compay Segundo

#i #only #singing #stop

My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music. ↗

— Compay Segundo

#desire #i #live #loving #music

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

— Compay Segundo

#because #i #like #maybe #music

The roots of Cuban music are in my head. ↗

— Compay Segundo

#head #music #roots

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. ↗

— Compay Segundo

#beginning #ending #everyone #had #how

I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude. ↗

— Anton Seidl

#crude #demonstrated #devotion #fact #feeling

It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities. ↗

— Anton Seidl

#each #fixed #nonsense #particular #peculiarities

Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift. ↗

— Anton Seidl

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