“I don't really have time [to babysit my twin cousins]. And, well, I actually have my own babysitter sometimes.”

“I actually didn't want to have control of the writing on my first album. To write, you have to have time to connect with yourself. I don't have that time right now, because I'm so busy.”

“I set up the Orchestra in 1939. I had had my supporters by that time and they used to follow me and scream during my shows. I used to like it, but said to myself: "be humble Osvaldo, don't be arrogant." There were sometimes I was in prison and a cousin of mine (a policeman) used to replaced me on the piano.”

“As I approach my 90th birthday, my friends are asking how it feels like, to have completed 90 orbits around the Sun. Well, I actually don't feel a day older than 89!”

“Sometimes I feel so weak, so helpless. Not having enough strength to even sustain myself. But it was at such times that I realized the burden of my humanity. That without God I really have no meaning.”

“If I don't have time to live my life well the first time, when am I going to find the time to go back and live it over?”

“I have not been without battle.
Bitter affliction was frequent
Between me and my cousins.”

“I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.”

“No man can have sex with anyone but me and since I don't have that kind of time on my hands, you might as well all be gay!”

“A lot of people tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true.”