Ruben Blades Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day.”

“But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.”

“It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”