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"So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama."
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"So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama."
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"In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market."
Interest
"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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