Top 51 Quotes by Ruben Blades

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.

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.

The first time I played was in Buenos Aires - was in 1983. The dictatorship was in position.

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

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.