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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 collected the 'Walking Dead' comics. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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