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Ruben Blades quotes

Panamanian Musician July 16, 1948

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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. Ruben Blades
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
Ruben Blades quote: "So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in..."
So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami. Ruben Blades
Ruben Blades quote: "I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has..."
I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. Ruben Blades
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
Ruben Blades quote: "I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a..."
I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang. Ruben Blades
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. Ruben Blades
Ruben Blades quote: "So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the..."
So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America. Ruben Blades
Ruben Blades quote: "So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm..."
So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime. Ruben Blades
Ruben Blades quote: "A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you."
A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you. Ruben Blades
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
Ruben Blades quote: "Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for..."
Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation. Ruben Blades
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
Ruben Blades quote: "We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't..."
We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened. Ruben Blades
Ruben Blades quote: "And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio..."
And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day. Ruben Blades

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