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Top 20 Compay Segundo Quotes (2025 Update)

Compay Segundo Quote: “I’m still strong and in the best shape to continue living my life.”

1. “I’m still strong and in the best shape to continue living my life.”

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Compay Segundo Quote: “My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can’t live without music.”

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

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Compay Segundo Quote: “As long as your heart beats, one is never too old.”

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

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Compay Segundo Quote: “I’ve done a lot of things away from my homeland.”

4. “I’ve done a lot of things away from my homeland.”

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Compay Segundo Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

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Compay Segundo Quote: “The roots of Cuban music are in my head.”

6. “The roots of Cuban music are in my head.”

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Compay Segundo Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

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Compay Segundo Quote: “In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation.”

8. “In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation.”

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Compay Segundo Quote: “The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it’s because of my age.”

9. “The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it’s because of my age.”

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Compay Segundo Quote: “I am still simple, just as if I were beginning.”

10. “I am still simple, just as if I were beginning.”

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Compay Segundo Quote: “Everyone should have a philosophy for living better.”

11. “Everyone should have a philosophy for living better.”

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Compay Segundo Quote: “I’ll only stop singing when I’m in my grave.”

12. “I’ll only stop singing when I’m in my grave.”

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Compay Segundo Quote: “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.”

13. “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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Compay Segundo Quote: “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.”

14. “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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Compay Segundo Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

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Compay Segundo Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

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Compay Segundo Quote: “Towns 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.”

17. “Towns 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.”

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Compay Segundo Quote: “Cubans are frantic when it comes to appreciating music.”

18. “Cubans are frantic when it comes to appreciating music.”

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Compay Segundo Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

— Compay Segundo

Compay Segundo Quote: “When it comes to musicians, I’m like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba.”

20. “When it comes to musicians, I’m like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba.”

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