Compay Segundo Quotes

I will be singing till my last breath.

Singing is and always will be a part of my life.

But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life.

I carry on singing because I love it. The closer you are to the end, the more you understand how important it is.

My life is to sing.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life.

Singing is my life, and I have to do it, or I'm going to go totally bananas.

I would hate the thought of dying full stop; I've got to be honest with you.

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

I called my book 'When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead' because that's the truth. I will keep talking until the big hand comes down from Heaven. But I am a spiritual man and I believe that even that does not have to be the end.

Fortunately, dance has been what's interested me all my life. So whether I am faced with incapacities or not, it still absorbs me.

I've loved music all my life.

I don't believe dying's a sad thing.

I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.

Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.

I really can't imagine not singing again.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.