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Rubén Blades quotes - page 2
I grew up surrounded by all types of music...You have to remember, Panama is a port so I always had contact with all types of music-from the big bands of Count Basie to all the Cuban bands of people like Benny Moré.
Rubén Blades
The bully got bullied...and that was happening in all levels of society: governments were treating people badly, authorities were not doing what they were supposed to do and people saw in that example, a way of getting even.
Rubén Blades
I decided we should book ourselves, so I started booking the band.
Rubén Blades
It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here.
Rubén Blades
So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama.
Rubén Blades
So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.
Rubén Blades
In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market.
Rubén Blades
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.
Rubén Blades
You know, it was uncomfortable doing the same thing. I don't like a rut.
Rubén Blades
There's a moment in everybody's life...where you have more past than future, and then you better start organizing your time. So I thought maybe this is the time to do this. I'm not keen on people following me and recording my life and asking personal questions and what-not, but I figured I had to do it.
Rubén Blades
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.
Rubén Blades
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