Best 19 quotes of Ruben Blades on MyQuotes

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

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.

It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.

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.

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

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

I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe.

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.

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

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.

So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.

So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.

There was a lot of stuff happening in Havana that was being heard and appreciated by New Orleans musicians because of this situation. And vice versa.

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

They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel.

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

What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off.

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.

Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69.