Humility

“Yo no soy ninguna autoridad de nada; ni siquiera me creo Lola La Grande, que me lo puso mi amiga Chabuca Granda; sólo quiero seguir proyectando mi música como hasta ahora lo hago...”

“どうもすみません”

“Also ohne Arroganz: Ich glaube, wir haben nicht alles falsch gemacht.”

“I started from nowhere and in reality he is humble and he doesn't discriminate.”

“Writing in another language is humbling.”

“I am just an ordinary person trying to do an ordinary job.”

“I hope to be remembered as a ‘voice’ encouraging people to think, rather than as a personality whose felt status and charisma stopped them thinking.”

“أظرف الناس في رأيي من لا يتدخل فيما لا يعنيه.”

“We are also humans and not God/Allah. We accept that we have committed mistakes and we might keep on committing mistakes.”

“My ambition was not to be a great artist, but I have always wanted to be a man like any other man.”

“How can I be of service?”

“I am only a link in the chain of world culture; and if that is not so, then all my work is rubbish.”

“I try not to be a jerk. I really do.”

“Bu çocuğu dinledikten sonra ben artık bu sazı elime alamam!..”

“A movie star gets a script and he says, how can I change this script to suit me. A movie actor gets a script and says, how can I change me to suit this script?”

“I believe it is difficult for those who publish their own memoirs to escape the imputation of vanity.”

“Cum pot eu, băiat de țăran, de la Băicoi, să stau într-o casă cu lei la ușă și atâta somptuozitate? Sunt bogat doar prin prisma generației și ar fi rușinos să afișez atâta opulență.”

“I hope to be remembered as a “voice” (like John the Baptist, crying in the wilderness) encouraging people to think, rather than as a personality whose felt status and charisma stopped them thinking.”