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"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, Drugs

"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."

Music,

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

Law, School

"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."

America, American, First

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

Money,

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

Interest,

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

Music, Commerce

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

Mother, Opera, Singing

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

People, Dance

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

Music, America, Cities

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"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Music, Loneliness, Space

"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Music, Life, Imagination, Soul

"I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

Music, Talent, Words

"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Music, Soul, Universe

"Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God."

Martin Luther, German Leader

Music, Art, God

"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

Music, Race, Voice

"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Music, Fear, Danger

"Music fills the infinite between two souls."

Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet

Music, Infinite

"I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American Athlete

Music, Jazz

"Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

Music, Heaven