Ruben Blades Quotes

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• I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
• 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…
• I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe.
• But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.
• Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation.
• What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off.
• We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened.
• I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.
• And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day.
• They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel.
• It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.
• 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…
• There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything.
• 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…
• There was a lot of stuff happening in Havana that was being heard and appreciated by New Orleans musicians because of this situation. And vice…
• People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.
• Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music.
• Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69.
• 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…
• So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami.

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