The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age.
From Compay Segundo
I've done a lot of things away from my homeland.
When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba.
I play music the way it was played in yesteryear.
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.
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.
Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say.
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.
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.
I am still simple, just as if I were beginning.
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