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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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