Ruben Blades

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

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

— Ruben Blades

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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

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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. ↗

— Ruben Blades

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

— Ruben Blades

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

— Ruben Blades

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

— Ruben Blades

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What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off. ↗

— Ruben Blades

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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. ↗

— Ruben Blades

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Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69. ↗

— Ruben Blades

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