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

Everyone comes back. It makes no difference how far we wander, we always have our country, our land, in our souls and our minds.

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

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.

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.

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.

People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.

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

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

Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music.

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.

In the end, we must remember that no one can become what they need to be by remaining where the are. Until there is motion nothing can change.

All of the years I spent trying to be someone you could be proud of would have been better spent being proud of myself for who I already was.

Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.

The organization will always mirror the behavior, habits, attitude, mindset and pace of the leader.

When you're being truly creative, time stands still, and you enter a dimension that can carry you beyond the ordinariness of everyday life.

The first step in the journey is to lose your way.

To us, waiting is wasting. To God waiting is working.

Victimization has its privileges, and I want some.

Great movies are rarely perfect movies.

No one can have two viewpoints about terrorism. There is no religion of terrorism. I am often asked my viewpoint on this, maybe because i am very proud to be a Muslim