Ruben Blades Quotes

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

Knowledge, Best, Society

It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.
Ruben Blades

Law, Place, Sense

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

Anyone, Credit, Smarter

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

Music, Pretty, Band

A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you.
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And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day.
Ruben Blades

Music, Important, Lives

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.
Ruben Blades

Here, Seen, Maybe

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

Music, Anywhere, Commerce

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

Sing, Thirteen, Began

I decided we should book ourselves, so I started booking the band.
Ruben Blades

Book, Started, Ourselves

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.
Ruben Blades

Around, Speak, Story

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

Respect, Pretty, Sense

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.
Ruben Blades

Mother, Remember, She

I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe.
Ruben Blades

Born, City, Republic

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.
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Political, Person, America

In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market.
Ruben Blades

Big, Days, Interest

It was very interesting, and we went to Germany and we toured Germany like we were a German band in 1985.
Ruben Blades

Band, Germany, German

It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here.
Ruben Blades

America, Here, Almost

Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation.
Ruben Blades

Music, Rock, Young

So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama.
Ruben Blades

Everything, Knew, Happened

So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with.
Ruben Blades

Family, Money, While

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

Music, America, Cities

So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.
Ruben Blades

Military, Lawyer, Figured

So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami.
Ruben Blades

Family, Miami, Panama

So that when I came to New York again, it was, I'm not too sure right now, but it was '74 or '75. I went to Miami in '74 and then I came to New York, I think, at the end of '74.
Ruben Blades

End, Again, Sure

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Biography

Nationality: Panamanian

Born: July 16, 1948

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