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Quotes by Cuban Authors
"I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course."
"They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?"
"Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say."
"My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music."
"Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life."
"The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters."
"You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But as long as those things are there, I don't plan to stop. There is nothing that makes me feel better than to be with my public."
"If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances."
"Oh, yeah, I've always thought of covering some of my influences like Billy Joel, Elton John, Stevie Wonder."
"With this new album, I prepared for it a long time, and I was happy with the songs and the production. I felt that I proved myself with the first album, and with this new album, I just want to share some of my music. And that was always my feeling and my intention."
"He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief."
"No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!"
"I loved the opportunity to play for the Yankees, too."
"In 83 I thought we were going to go all the way. We had Roy Smalley, and Steve King, and good players."
"Everyone should have a philosophy for living better."
"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."
"A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past."
"Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making."
"I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face."
"I just smoked a Cohiba the other day. It was great. You have to appreciate everything that cigar is."
Day,
"We got off the Clash of the Titans tour and I said that my wife and I were working on having a baby and sure enough we found out that she was pregnant. So I told them nine months in advance that I wasn't going to tour in September so I could witness the birth of my first son."
"For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page."
"It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down."
"It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do."
"Be very strong... be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion."
"When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba."
"Are we to say that any individual who's on steroids that has an angry moment is due to steroids? What about the individual who gets angry and kills someone who's not on steroids? What do we blame it on now?"
"I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity."
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