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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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" Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models. "

" I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe. "

" 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. "

" Tango was very popular in Panama at the time when I was growing up. In the Fifties in Panama, the radio stations played all types of music. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I was always interested in trying to find how different genres would affect the lyrics that I'd written. Salsa is where most of my songs have been recorded, the genre of salsa. It's very frenetic, fast-paced. And I felt that the lyrics sometimes were being lost. "