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

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

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

" Not everybody goes to government to serve themselves and not their country. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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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. "

" 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. "

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