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Ruben Blades

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

— Ruben Blades society

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

— Ruben Blades law

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

— Ruben Blades time

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

— Ruben Blades city

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

— Ruben Blades

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

— Ruben Blades people

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

— Ruben Blades art

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.

— Ruben Blades political

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.

— Ruben Blades people

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

— Ruben Blades art

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

— Ruben Blades comfort

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

— Ruben Blades people

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

— Ruben Blades art

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

— Ruben Blades sin

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

— Ruben Blades sin

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

— Ruben Blades music

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

— Ruben Blades vision

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

— Ruben Blades money

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 change

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.

— Ruben Blades family

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.

— Ruben Blades music

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

— Ruben Blades man

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

— Ruben Blades family

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

— Ruben Blades music

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

— Ruben Blades art

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