Top 51 Quotes by Ruben Blades

I don't accept ideologies that are not a product of consensus. I don't have an ideology, but I do have a sense of what's right and what's wrong.

My mother never finished elementary school. My father didn't, and that was a reality for many of us.

At a certain point, people in Panama thought that everything was going to be solved as soon as Noriega was gone. Of course, the disappointment was huge.

I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe.

So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama.

So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami.

There's something about the tango that brings even more emotion out of the lyrics.

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

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.

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