Ruben Blades Quotes

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

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  Education, Ignorance, Thinking

  "Not everyone enthusiastic about the future of TV". Bangor Daily News, February 18, 1993.

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• Everyone comes back. It makes no difference how far we wander, we always have our country, our land, in our souls and our minds.

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  Country, Land, Differences

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

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  People, Giving, Credit

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

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  Law, House, Lawyer

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

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  Inspirational, Dance, People

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

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

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  Important, Radio, Our Lives

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

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  Latin, Reality, Cities

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

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  Making Money, Nickels

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

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  People, Facts, Talent

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

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  Television, Radio

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• 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.

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  New York, Latin, Views

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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.

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  New York, Albums, Firsts

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• I didn't do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don't have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasn't interested in the people around the drugs.

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  People, Drug, Stories

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

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  July, Cities, Republic

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

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  School, Law, Law School

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• 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.

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  Dancing, Sound, Copying

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

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  Rocks, Generations, Youth

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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.

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  Mean, New Orleans, Interesting

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

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  Neighborhood, Thirteen

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• 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.

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  New York, Latin, Thinking

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

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  Military, Lawyer, Regimes

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• 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.

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  New York, Thinking, Miami

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

  Ruben Blades

  Commerce

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

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  Mother, Kids, Singing

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