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Quotes by Musician
"I think paranormal experiences are very personal, again, if they are that. Yes, sometimes I've felt that some things I would personally believe enough for me to take action on it... like, you know, I felt something happen in a hotel once that made me never stay there again."
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"There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything."
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"Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all."
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"I am affected by what is around. I don't think many people would admit that."
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"I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself."
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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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"A couple of people thought I looked familiar, but it was like, No."
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"It's been crazy trying to tour with a baby. But it's actually working out okay."
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"When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didn't have time."
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"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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"I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman."
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"In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself."
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"Every country I've had different hit records, so we have to change the set to fit the country."
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"You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas."
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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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"All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!"
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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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"When we came up with titles like Ready or Not, that's how we really felt."
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"I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance."
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"This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career."
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"I say 20 words in English. I say money, money, money, and I say hot dog! I say yes, no and I say money, money, money and I say turkey sandwich and I say grape juice."
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"Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone."
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"So many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush."
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"The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes ah, that is where the art resides."
Art,
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"No one knew me until I met my wife Lulu. Lulu's mother used to ask, Which one is Maurice? For six months she thought Lulu was dating Barry."
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"Obviously you have to have talent in order to play so you can't overlook that, but we won't overlook the character issue when it comes to talent because if they have talent and they don't have character, it's going to be very difficult to coach that person."
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"So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami."
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"So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime."
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"When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it illuminating not to have to pay attention to voices in the recordings."
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"I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been."
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"I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece."
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