When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.
Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way of doing things; it is absurd and stupid
I adore art. . . when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.
I have striven for perfection, it has always eluded me, but I surely had an obligation to make one more try.
To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.
You may have the universe if I may have Italy.
It is better to invert reality than to copy it.
I'm actually quite modest. All I want is a nice car. All I want is a drink at midnight on Sunday night and I'll be a very happy man.
Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.
That spirit of mockery characteristic of the guaracha was part of the mambo from the beginning.
At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!