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

Poetry, People

"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."

Death, Hope, Waiting

"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."

Desire, Limits

"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."

Life, People, Day, Detail

"Everyone should have a philosophy for living better."

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."

Time, Saying, Singing, Talk

"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."

Music, Thought, Europe, Grandparents

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

Music, Play

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

Heart, Old

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

Music, Work, Dedication, Desire

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"I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not."

Luther Allison, American Musician

Musicians,

"When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing."

Roy Ayers, English Musician

Musicians, Talk

"I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them."

Cecilia Bartoli, Italian Musician

Musicians,

"I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each."

Les Baxter, American Musician

Musicians, Sound

"When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30."

Les Baxter, American Musician

Musicians, Want

"All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds."

Marc Bolan, British Musician

Musicians,

"Our parents were musicians."

Caroline Corr, Irish Musician

Musicians, Parents

"Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song."

Neil Diamond, American Musician

Musicians, Song, Training

"There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary."

Trevor Dunn, American Musician

Musicians, Reason

"The wise musicians are those who play what they can master."

Duke Ellington, American Musician

Musicians, Play