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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I collected the 'Walking Dead' comics. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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