Ruben Blades
Musician
1948-07-16
Quotes by Ruben Blades
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I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.
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But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.
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They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel.
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It was very interesting, and we went to Germany and we toured Germany like we were a German band in 1985.
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The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city.
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Basically, I would like to be considered for roles that are well-written. I think that part of the problem that we've had as actors is that they insist on looking at us as Latino actors and not as actors, period.
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