I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. Ruben Blades Read Quote
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. Ruben Blades Read Quote
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. Ruben Blades Read Quote
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. Ruben Blades Read Quote
So that when I came from Panama… my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami. Ruben Blades Read Quote
At a certain point, people in Panama thought that everything was going to be solved as soon as Noriega was gone. Of course, the disappointment was huge. Ruben Blades Read Quote
