Best quotes by Arturo O'Farrill on Music

Checkout quotes by Arturo O'Farrill on Music

• ‟ I made one rule for myself, and I really try to live it: Play music you love, with people you love, for people you love. If I can't be that kind of musician, I'll drive a cab.

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• ‟ Creating music based on art and giving away from your spirit is more important than making a living.

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• ‟ For me, learning music and playing music and learning your instrument has incredible parallels for our day-to-day existence as human beings. All the ideas of discipline, and having a sense of yourself and translating that to music, that's all part of life's journey.

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• ‟ I've always thought of music as profound spirituality because you can use that music and that spirituality for personal gain or for the good of the world, the good of humanity, and for the good of your people.

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• ‟ I grew up in an environment with virtually no Hispanics where you see only people in your culture in custodial jobs. I had a messed up image of what we bring to this nation. My father was known as a pioneering figure in Cuban music, but I still associated him with everything that was negative in my neighborhood. I could not have been more mistaken.

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• ‟ Jazz and Cuba are inexorably tied together; it's not a branch from a tree. Latin music is part of the root of jazz.

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