Ruben Blades

I don't accept ideologies that are not a product of consensus. I don't have an ideology, but I do have a sense of what's right and what's wrong.

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

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

I really think that music itself, being one of the greatest possible vehicles for mass communication, should be probed to its extremes, to see how effective it can actually become, which is one of the reasons why I became also interested in presenting political points of view.

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