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

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

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

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

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

" I collected the 'Walking Dead' comics. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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