We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

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.

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.

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.

So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.