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" Basically, I would like to be considered for roles that are well-written. I think that part of the problem that we've had as actors is that they insist on looking at us as Latino actors and not as actors, period. "

Ruben Blades

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day. "

" So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime. "

" You know, it was uncomfortable doing the same thing. I don't like a rut. "

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" I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America. "

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

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

" I really think that music itself, being one of the greatest possible vehicles for mass communication, should be probed to its extremes, to see how effective it can actually become, which is one of the reasons why I became also interested in presenting political points of view. "

" There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything. "

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

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

" So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama. "

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

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

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

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

" What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another. "

Ruben Blades

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" It was very interesting, and we went to Germany and we toured Germany like we were a German band in 1985. "

Ruben Blades

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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. "

Ruben Blades

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

" To fix Panama, you need more than charisma and records: you need a program of action. "

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" Everyone has a black guy inside them. Mine is a Cuban sonero who is 80-something years old and sings better than I do. His name is Medoro Madera. Medoro has been recording since 1997. "

" 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. "

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

" I was never particularly a part of the following of tango; I just liked it... most of all, I recognized that the urban content and the approach seemed very familiar and very connected to the songs that I was doing, the kind of songs that I wanted to write - the songs about the street. "

" 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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" 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. "