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

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" I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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