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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" I collected the 'Walking Dead' comics. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "