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.
A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you. - Ruben Blades
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
And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day.
I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. - Ruben Blades
I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
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
Everyone comes back. It makes no difference how far we wander, we always have our country, our land, in our souls and our minds.
They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel. - Ruben Blades
They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel.
There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything. - Ruben Blades
There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything.
So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America. - Ruben Blades
So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.
People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being. - Ruben Blades
People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.
What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off. - Ruben Blades
What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off.
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