67 Quotes by Ruben Blades

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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