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

- Ruben Blades

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

- Ruben Blades

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

- Ruben Blades

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

- Ruben Blades

Everyone comes back. It makes no difference how far we wander, we always have our country, our land, in our souls and our minds.

- Ruben Blades

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

- Ruben Blades

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

- Ruben Blades

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

- Ruben Blades

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

- Ruben Blades