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Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say.

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.

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.

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Desire

Limits

I am still simple, just as if I were beginning.

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Beginning

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.

Everyone should have a philosophy for living better.

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Living

Philosophy

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.

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.

I play music the way it was played in yesteryear.

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Music

Play

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

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Heart

Old

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

Cubans are frantic when it comes to appreciating music.

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Music

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

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Musicians

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

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Grave

Singing

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.