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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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 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. "

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