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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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" People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

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