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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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"I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse."
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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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"In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since."
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"Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot."
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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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"In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market."
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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."
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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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"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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"We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened."
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"They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel."
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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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"Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music."
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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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