Explore more quotes by Ruben Blades

"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

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

Law, Sense

"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

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

Music, Youth

"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

Exlpore more Television quotes

"In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows."

Woody Allen, American Director

Television,

"I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television."

Roone Arledge, American Journalist

Television, Eye, Public

"Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

Television, Violence

"The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

Television,

"I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980."

Julian Bond, American Activist

Television,

"I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories."

Eric Brown, British Writer

Television, Day, Garden, Projects, Words

"Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes."

John Mason Brown, American Critic

Television, Eyes

"Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows."

Les Brown, American Businessman

Television,

"Television has a real problem. They have no page two."

Art Buchwald, American Journalist

Television,

"The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system."

Tom C. Clark, American Politician

Television, Prejudice, Public, Result