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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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"One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."
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"Since this our first show, I think they'll see us sweat a lot."
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"I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum."
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"I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill."
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"Our first record, 'Huey Lewis And The News', was seen by no one - it sold 25 copies."
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"How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers' strike, so what we did was that instead of doing 22 episodes, we did 30. We put 10 in the bank."
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"I was 23, and that was my first professional job. Anybody who has curly hair knows you don't want it to be brushed out because it becomes a never-ending tangle."
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"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."
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"First of all, you have to understand that I'm like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice."
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"Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee."
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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 I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off."
People
"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."
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"Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69."
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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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"So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami."
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