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"So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America."
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"We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened."
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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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"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
"And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day."
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"So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America."
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"They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel."
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"Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69."
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"So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami."
Family
"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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"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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"One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows."
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"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."
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"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
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"You can cage the singer but not the song."
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"For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty."
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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."
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"We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man."
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"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."
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