Quotes by Ruben Blades

Ruben Blades

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

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

Important

Our Lives

Radio

And, he’d seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked it up when I came here and I recorded in 1969 my first album with Pete Rodriguez.

Albums

Firsts

New York

Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music.

Commerce

But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.

Neighborhood

Thirteen

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.

Copying

Dancing

Sound

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

Country

Differences

Land

I didn’t do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don’t have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasn’t interested in the people around the drugs.

Drug

People

Stories

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.

Latin

New York

Thinking

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

Education

Ignorance

Thinking

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Country

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Facts

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Generations

Giving

House

Ignorance

Important

Inspirational

Interesting

July

Kids

Land

Latin

Law

Law School

Lawyer

Making Money

Mean

Miami

Military

Mother

Musician

My Family

Neighborhood

New Orleans

New York

Nickels

Obvious

Our Lives

Panama

People

Radio

Reality

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Republic

Rocks

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Quotes by Ruben Blades

Ruben Blades

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

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

And, he’d seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked it up when I came here and I recorded in 1969 my first album with Pete Rodriguez.

Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music.

But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.

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.

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

I didn’t do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don’t have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasn’t interested in the people around the drugs.

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.

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

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