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I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.
Carlos Santana
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Carlos Santana
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 20
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Carlos Augusto Alves Santana
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I would invite all Latin people to do nothing for about two weeks so you can see who really, really is running the economy I am here to give voice to the invisible.
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The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
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Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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