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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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