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.

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

So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you.