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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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""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."
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"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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"Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977."
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"The first is last, and the last is first."
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"I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA."
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"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."
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"I think worship is a lifestyle, first of all."
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"In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note."
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"I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir."
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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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"Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69."
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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."
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"Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music."
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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 everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama."
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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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"It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law."
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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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"And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day."
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