Compay Segundo

Musician

1907-11-18

Quotes by Compay Segundo

• 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.

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

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• 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.

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