Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.
They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel.
I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
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 I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.
People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.
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.
I love that contradiction between the ugly and the nice. It's shot in a very gourmet way in the Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer. But then Grenouille doesn't differentiate between what's commonly considered to be good smells and bad. He just takes it all, like a true collector does.
There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.
I don't even know my own phone number.
They call themselves Sephardic Jews, but that's not the important thing. The important thing is that some come from the Muslim world and some come from the Christian world. I would call them the Muslim Jews and the Christian Jews. It sounds absurd but you know what I mean.