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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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"The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn't tell him the dog's name."
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"I had been warned not to get on a motorcycle, sort of. I think there is a clause in most general basic contracts to keep yourself in one piece and not alter your looks without telling them first."
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"If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?"
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"But, I didn't get my first break until I was 17."
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"If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone."
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"I did my first recording. It was called The Champ."
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"But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose."
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"The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday."
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"I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names."
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"When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub."
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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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"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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"Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation."
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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 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."
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"It was very interesting, and we went to Germany and we toured Germany like we were a German band in 1985."
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"So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama."
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"It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here."
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"Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music."
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