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"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."
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"We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened."
People
"In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market."
Interest
"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."
Family
"And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day."
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"They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel."
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"Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69."
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"So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami."
Family
"I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe."
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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."
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"I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds."
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"If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the "survival of the fittest?""
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"A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories."
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"I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City ."
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"The popular song is America's greatest ambassador."
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"Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties."
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"I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes."
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"Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out."
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"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America."
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"I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging."
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"I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America."
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