Ruben Blades

People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being. ↗

— Ruben Blades

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Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models. ↗

— Ruben Blades

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A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you. ↗

— Ruben Blades

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And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day. ↗

— Ruben Blades

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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. ↗

— Ruben Blades

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Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music. ↗

— Ruben Blades

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But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood. ↗

— Ruben Blades

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I decided we should book ourselves, so I started booking the band. ↗

— Ruben Blades

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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. ↗

— Ruben Blades

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I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. ↗

— Ruben Blades

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