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

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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 doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I collected the 'Walking Dead' comics. "

" 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. "