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"I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance."
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"In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America."
"It was very interesting, and we went to Germany and we toured Germany like we were a German band in 1985."
"So that when I came to New York again, it was, I'm not too sure right now, but it was '74 or '75. I went to Miami in '74 and then I came to New York, I think, at the end of '74."
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