Cuba Quote by Compay Segundo

Music is so essential to the Cuban character that you can't disentangle it from the history of the nation. the history of Cuban music…

— Ned Sublette

The roots of Cuban music are in my head.

— Compay Segundo

When we decided to go to Cuba to perform, we did it because we just wanted to build a bridge, you know, between Cuba…

— Juanes

The world will always love Cuban music, however it changes.

— Ry Cooder

Cubans are frantic when it comes to appreciating music.

— Compay Segundo

Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a…

— Jackson Browne

Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the…

— Ruben Blades

Music has been in our family for generations.

— Henry Garza

It is interesting seeing young people these days and watching how unimportant music is in their lives compared with our generation.

— Alison Moyet

It's rooted in things that maybe older people or people my age remember as being rock music. But at the same time, I don't…

— Jeff Tweedy

Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.

— Wanda Jackson

It was easy for people to be derisive about our music because they saw what we were doing as retro. But we were like…

— Eric Carmen