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"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."
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"I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years."
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"We had several hits in the States but probably only one big one in Europe. The crowds are smaller."
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"I get very anxious and am scared in crowds and things like that."
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"Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile."
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"We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows."
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"The crowds can be very loud, especially when you're playing in the evening."
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"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."
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"Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds."
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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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"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."
People
"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."
Music
"What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off."
People
"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
"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."
Life
"I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance."
Society
"So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America."
Music
"Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69."
Law
"I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang."
Mother
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