Cuban Quotes

The roots of Cuban music are in my head.

Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.

The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble.

Cuban cigars are an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky. If you're not used to them, you'll get a headache, you'll find them much too strong. But to a cigar connoisseur, a longtime smoker, if you have a well-made, well-aged one, there is nothing like a Cuban cigar. Getting them is the ultimate mission; any cigar lover would do anything

We're eyeball to eyeball...and I think the other fellow just blinked.

Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one.

I'm learning Cuban. It's like Spanish, but with fewer words for luxury items.

Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman ... or a bad woman.

I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.

A good Cuban cigar closes the doors to the vulgarities of the world.

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!

Cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, Cigars are for eternity.

I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American.

You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.

I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke every last one of 'em.

The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.

I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.

But 'Cuban Linx' was a project that really needed to come, and I really wanted to get it off my chest because I know that the fans were really skeptical about it, like 'is this really gonna be what it's supposed to be?' So once everybody caught it for what it was and everybody was happy, that's mission accomplished for me.

The Cuban economy is a disaster. No, I do not praise Fidel Castro.

I smoke really good cigars, I don't smoke Cuban cigars. I would never do anything as Un-American as smoke a decent cigar.

I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy.

How do you say 'delicious' in Cuban?

Cubans are frantic when it comes to appreciating music.

Here is the thing people do not understand. And I have said this repeatedly. I am not against changes in U.S. policy towards Cuba. I just want to make sure that those changes are reciprocal, that they're reciprocated by the Cuban government. That was not part of what President Obama did.

The Cuban-born Mario Algaze has a Chambian way of collapsing present and past.