Ruben Blades famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
-- Ruben Blades

#Ignorance #Thinking #Risk
There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything.
-- Ruben Blades

#Television #Radio
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

#Mean #New Orleans #Interesting
There was a lot of stuff happening in Havana that was being heard and appreciated by New Orleans musicians because of this situation. And vice versa.
-- Ruben Blades

#New Orleans #Stuff #Vices
People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.
-- Ruben Blades

#People #Giving #Credit
Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music.
-- Ruben Blades

#Commerce
Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69.
-- Ruben Blades

#School #Law #Law School
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

#New York #Thinking #Miami
So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami.
-- Ruben Blades

#Miami #My Family #Panama
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

#Military #Lawyer #Regimes
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.
-- Ruben Blades

#New York #Firsts #Albums
It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.
-- Ruben Blades

#Law #House #Lawyer
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.
-- Ruben Blades

#Dancing #Sound #Copying
I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe.
-- Ruben Blades

#Cities #July #Republic
But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.
-- Ruben Blades

#Neighborhood #Thirteen
Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation.
-- Ruben Blades

#Rocks #Generations #Youth
What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off.
-- Ruben Blades

#People #Facts #Talent
We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened.
-- Ruben Blades

#Dance #People
I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.
-- Ruben Blades

#Mother #Kids #Singing
And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day.
-- Ruben Blades

#Important #Radio
They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel.
-- Ruben Blades

#Making Money #Nickels
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.
-- Ruben Blades

#Miami #My Family #Obvious

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