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" 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. "

Ruben Blades

Music

Interesting

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Action

Need

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

" 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. "

Ruben Blades

Looking

Think

" A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

Ruben Blades

Germany

Interesting

" I really think that music itself, being one of the greatest possible vehicles for mass communication, should be probed to its extremes, to see how effective it can actually become, which is one of the reasons why I became also interested in presenting political points of view. "

" 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. "

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

Ruben Blades

Doing

You

" 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. "

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

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

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

Ruben Blades

People

Off

" I collected the 'Walking Dead' comics. "

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

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

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

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