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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Basically, I would like to be considered for roles that are well-written. I think that part of the problem that we've had as actors is that they insist on looking at us as Latino actors and not as actors, period. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" I collected the 'Walking Dead' comics. "

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

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

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

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