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

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.

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

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.

Happiness is not in perfection but it is a perception in the midst of imperfection.

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

a woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.

If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.

no matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.

All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations.

There 's nothing like being used to a thing.

Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.

You have all played a significant part in my development of loving. As a result, my life has been rich and full, so I leave feeling very grateful.

People judged my work without to have listened to it.