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Ruben Blades

"I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America."

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"I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America."

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Ruben Blades
"We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened."

People

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Ruben Blades
"There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything."

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Ruben Blades
"In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market."

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Ruben Blades
"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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Ruben Blades
"It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here."

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Ruben Blades
"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."

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Ruben Blades
"Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation."

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Ruben Blades
"I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang."

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Ruben Blades
"So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama."

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Ruben Blades
"Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music."

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Aberjhani

"If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the "survival of the fittest?""

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Aberjhani

"A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories."

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Aberjhani

"I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City ."

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Aberjhani

"The popular song is America's greatest ambassador."

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Aberjhani

"Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties."

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Aberjhani

"I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes."

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Aberjhani

"Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out."

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Aberjhani

"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America."

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Aberjhani

"I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging."

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Aberjhani

"I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America."

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