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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. "

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" 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. "

Ruben Blades

Communication

Music

Think

" 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. "

" 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. "

Ruben Blades

Wrong

Product

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

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

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

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

" Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation. "

" 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. "

" 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

Music

Interesting

" 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. "

" The first time I played was in Buenos Aires - was in 1983. The dictatorship was in position. "

" I collected the 'Walking Dead' comics. "

" The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city. "

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

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

" What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off. "

Ruben Blades

People

Off

" 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

Looking

Think

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Ruben Blades

Doing

You

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

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

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

Ruben Blades

Germany

Interesting

" 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. "

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

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

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