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Carlos Santana Quotes

born 1947 Mexico

Carlos Humberto Santana Barragán (born July 20, 1947) is a Grammy Award-winning Mexican Latin rock musician and guitarist. He gained prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which created a highly successful blend of salsa, rock, blues, and jazz fusion.

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This shit is not for me – I don't care how enlightening it is.

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.

My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity--intuition and compassion and tenderness--and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Carlos Santana (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.