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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" In general, both in Spanish and English, the quality of the entertainment media is horrible. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "