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" My mother never finished elementary school. My father didn't, and that was a reality for many of us. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 collected the 'Walking Dead' comics. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I decided we should book ourselves, so I started booking the band. "

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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