67 Quotes by Ruben Blades

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

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

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

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

We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened.

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.

What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another.

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

You know, it was uncomfortable doing the same thing. I don't like a rut.