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" And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked it up when I came here and I recorded in 1969 my first album with Pete Rodriguez. "

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" Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69. "

" I collected the 'Walking Dead' comics. "

" Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music. "

" I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang. "

" So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami. "

" I'm planning to retire from salsa. I'm planning to do a farewell tour. "

" I didn't do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don't have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasn't interested in the people around the drugs. "

" So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America. "

" I don't accept ideologies that are not a product of consensus. I don't have an ideology, but I do have a sense of what's right and what's wrong. "

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" In general, both in Spanish and English, the quality of the entertainment media is horrible. "

" In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market. "

" So that when I came to New York again, it was, I'm not too sure right now, but it was '74 or '75. I went to Miami in '74 and then I came to New York, I think, at the end of '74. "

" People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being. "

" A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you. "

" It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here. "

" I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds. "

" There's something about the tango that brings even more emotion out of the lyrics. "

" My mother never finished elementary school. My father didn't, and that was a reality for many of us. "

" It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law. "

" So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with. "

" I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. "

" I think being born in Panama was a blessing because Panama is a port city. It's a really - the mentality is that - I remember that of admitting things in. You know, ports, ideas come in and out all the time. "

" We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened. "

" They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel. "

" At a certain point, people in Panama thought that everything was going to be solved as soon as Noriega was gone. Of course, the disappointment was huge. "

" But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood. "

" I decided we should book ourselves, so I started booking the band. "

" Tortured characters are, I think, an actor's dream. "