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"Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation."
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"I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may."
"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
"I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults."
"Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it."
"So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with."
"There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything."
"That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out."
"Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music."
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"In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market."
"I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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