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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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"We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened."
People
"In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market."
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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."
Mother
"I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance."
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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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"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."
Family
"And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day."
Music
"So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America."
Music
"They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel."
Money
"Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69."
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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."
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"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."
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"The longest tenured First LOVE and Greatest TEACHER, in-fact life long, is none the other, but Mother."
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"I recently saw the movie about Ray Charles, and there's a scene where he falls down and the mother doesn't help him. She says, I don't want anyone to treat you like a cripple. I've fallen down before, and Molly will say, get up and just go."
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"We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers."
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"No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that."
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"I always sang when I was little and my father, who was a great influence on me, also had a wonderful voice. He and my mother really encouraged me to sing and play the piano. They were always very supportive."
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"I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road."
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"It's my mother's engagement ring so I thought it was quite nice because obviously she's not going to be around to share any of the fun and excitement of it all - this was my way of keeping her close to it all."
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"My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk; she sang. She was a tower of strength."
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