I leave you the best phrases of Héctor Lavoe (1946-1993) «El Cantante de los cantantes», probably the most internationally known salsa singer of all time. Among his best known songs are Mi Gente, Aguanile, El Cantante, La Murga or Periódico de Ayer.
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Portrait of Héctor Lavoe. Source: Wikimedia Commons - JimmyPerez60 -If we saw the world and our brother peoples well, there would be no resounding, nor would there be belief, each head is a world. -Almighty.
-Leave parties and milongas that will never weigh you down, take good care of your old lady, that the mother is a treasure, a treasure that when someone else will not find it. -Golden tip.
-I come from the land of sweetness. Where am I going? I am going to distribute deliciousness, the rich and sandunguera flavor that Puerto Rico can give. -Paradise of sweetness.
- Envy and resentment are alike in everything. In me they are dead beasts because they never bite me. -I'm a homeless man.
-United in one piece, modern rumberos we are going to touch each other, rejecting the one who fights us, and respecting those who do not know how to respect. -Axe and machete.
-Why does your cruel silence hurt so much in me? Why, if I have lived only for you? Why is our love dying causing great pain in me? -As much as yesterday.
-Waiting for my luck I was left, but my life took another course. Surviving in a reality that I couldn't even escape. To eat you have to look for the real one. -My lucky day.
-Your love aimed very high, that's why he got nothing from me. It crossed like a wrong arrow, which easily avoided my heart. -Second table plate.
-We are in life, dust, nothing that matters, and that is what will finally separate us. It is useless for you to think about happiness. It has a lot of absence, its fleeting existence. -Comedy.
-The day you left, I was sad I was crying. Oh come back, I ask you! Can't you see that for your love I'm surely killing myself! -Absence.
-I have a tasty chicken that I want to marry, but they just informed me that no, that I cannot get married, because she is my friend's girlfriend and that does give us pause. -What a mess.
-Get away from me I don't want to see you, your love is a sham that hurts. With you I have had bad luck, in my heart it hurts like a thorn. -Get away.
-Before cursing, I proudly prefer to be just that a vagabond. -I'm a homeless man.
-Nobody knows my pain, is that they know me little. Crazy, crazy I go through life, I sing, I laugh and I suffer too. I'm human and everything happens to me, that's why I'll always be crazy. And every day I will be more crazy. -Crazy.
-Stop so much boasting and live reality, oh well, no matter how hard you try, the world will not change. They tell you wise, wise, wise you will be, but with so much wisdom and you have no happiness. -The wise.
-You are driving me crazy and I can't explain why? Songoro cosongo del Mamey. Songoro, the black woman dances well. Will it be how you move? Or will it be how you look? -Songoro cosongo.
-If yesterday was happiness, today is sadness. But what anguish, melancholy, disappointment. -Barrunto.
-If you know that I adore you, that you are heaven, my treasure, tell me why I cannot have your great love. Make up your mind to give me your heart, and then you will know what love is. -Let her continue.
-Who's called El Malo? There is no discussion, the Bad guy here is me, because I have a heart. -The bad.
-She kept crying for that love that never came. Oh! Juana Peña now you cry for me. Now you cry for me and I don't love you. You were pretty but traitorous. -Juana Peña.
-Let's all dance African style. If you don't know how to dance, I'll teach you my brother. -Che Che Cole
-Oh, that the three nails of the cross go before me, that they speak to him and they answer him: Oh, God! I had'? Whoever criticizes me I have water, may, may, Soba mommy! -Aguanile.
-Death with its power will be able to drive us away, and with it I would go down to the grave. But as long as my soul and heart live in my being, my illusions, beautiful existence, will be yours. -Happy hours.
-There are jíbaros who when they arrive from the United States they look at their friends with an air of superiority. Everyone wants to be great and wise. -This Christmas.
-I am going to give your winter solitude, a glacial breeze every evening, I will run away from your passionate cold. Your skin is made of ice crystal, and it seems to me that you look at a glow without light or fire. -Frost.
-The street is a concrete jungle, and of wild beasts, of course. There is no longer anyone who goes crazy with happiness, wherever the worst awaits you. -Juanito Alimaña.
-The woman I loved left me today, waiting night and day and can't decide to return. But I, I know that he will return, and if not, I will die. -Absence.
-No one asks if I suffer, if I cry, if I have a pain that hurts very deeply. -The singer.
-I don't have friends, and if I get an easy love, that's how easy I have to lose it. My mother said: Do not think you are a great tenorio, you will stop is a sanatorium and there you have to lose all fame. -Fame.
-I would like to leave the children a world of happiness, peace and love, and that they look to the future for a world that lives better. -Life is Beautiful.
-Here you are wrong and I tell you like a brother, I am not the one who is late, it is that you arrive very early. You always criticize me, stop that nonsense. Look well from top to bottom that I am a case of cuteness. -The king of punctuality.
-Whoever tells a lie says two, and says a hundred, makes up a thousand, says a million. The being that was born to deceive, deceives you, deceives me. -Shoulder strap.
-I am the singer that you have come to listen to today, the best of the repertoire I am going to offer you. And I sing to life with laughter and sorrow of bad times and good things. -The singer.
-I don't care that you treat me with contempt, nor do I care the way you look at me. If loves like you are priceless, they are found around every corner. -Get away.
-Today I looked at your eyes, your eyes so beautiful, your eyes so green, greener than the sea. And in your pupils I saw the wounds of your pain. -Your eyes.
-Grandma, your sayings made me laugh. Oh, granny of my life, how I remember you. I love you, I adore you, you are my only treasure. -Granny.
-She is trying to achieve what she has dreamed of, she takes advantage of life's experience, she is forgetting past sufferings, slander and lies punish her. -Sad and empty.
-How big is your love? If that is your condition. Give me a smile, like a rose without sun, like a spring without a flower. -How big is your love?
-Take off you to put on me, take off you talking here on the corner, singing I bring this rich son monduno to enjoy the tasty. -You get out of the way.
-Love me sir, why do you let me continue insisting on your affection, if you know thoroughly that it is absurd and that I will never be able to have it. -It depends on you.
-Your presence disorients and makes me shudder, because they know that I repeat, I cannot win or lose. -Ah-Ah / O-No.
-Fall in love and dance, and find your bra, that if you hurry you will die, and if you don't hurry too -Live your life happily.
-I know you salted cod, I have to close the doors and windows of my house. When I see you walk and pegadito you pass it, what an annoying boy, what a grabber guy. -I know you.
They tell me that I am crazy, but they are falling out of a coconut, because they cannot laugh at me. What happens to them is that without my coat they cannot live, because I sing, dance, play a little, and I know how to shake myself. -Let's laugh a little.
- Your love is a newspaper of yesterday, that nobody else tries to read; sensational when it came out at dawn, at noon and confirmed news, and forgotten matter in the afternoon. -Yesterday's newspaper.
-All people are different. We are each a world. -Almighty.
-How brief was your presence and my boredom, how warm were your hands, your voice. Like a firefly your light comes, and dispels the shadows in my corner. -Only shadows.
-Poor old woman, she who loved you so much, who came to the sacrifice to send you to study. You don't even have much delicacy to put Mom's portrait in the house. -The portrait of mom.
-Timbalero, which is what happens, but look, look, look timbalero. Why are you sad, if you told me just now that I was going to enjoy and hesitate? -Timpanist.
-You well know that my soul feels mortal jealousy when I see that you are going out with another and that I am waiting for you. -You know it well.
-Oh, for being always lying, one day it will happen to you, that you will be left alone. Hey, I'm telling you from now on. -Lie.
"My lucky day will come soon." I know that before my death my luck will surely change. -My lucky day.
-Loves like yours are found wherever you want, you are one of many who loves like yours are found on the street. -A love of the street.
-Look how I found you, turned into a malamaña. You don't even need to know why they call you piranha. -Piranha.
-Don't do like those who spend themselves on pleasures and forget their mother. They kill her reluctantly, and only when she dies do they repent and cry for her, they don't understand her value. -Golden tip.
-Everything has an end, nothing lasts forever. We have to remember that there is no eternity. -Everything has its end. -Everything has its end.
-Hey sir if you want your life, avoiding is better or you have lost it. Look, lady, take your wallet well, you don't know this neighborhood here, they assault anyone. -Calle Luna, Calle Sol.
-You are the beautiful dream of the best poet, who inspired by you died dreaming. With your blue sky and your green fields, land of Eden, island of enchantment. -Island of the charm.
-We are going to dance La Murga, La Murga de Panamá. The boys get upset when they see her walk. -La Murga.
-Don't ask me what's wrong, maybe I don't know myself. Lend me a few hours of your life. If tonight is lost, let's meet the two. - Get me drunk with love.