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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I collected the 'Walking Dead' comics. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "