67 Quotes by Ruben Blades

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

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

There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything.

They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.