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Moacir Santos Quotes

Moacir Santos Quotes

When my mother died, i was two years old, and I was adopted by a family with five brothers, we lived in a garage, which was given by one of those rich people who were called major, captain... But I ran away, because I thought in Flores, a city with five streets, it wouldn't be possible for me to expand my music, and besides that, I lived a very subjugated life, I was beaten up a lot, I was whipped, and didn't deserve it. A lady, who never got married, was who took care of me, and she use to beat me a lot, easily... in such way that ... for example, she would ask me to go to the store, which was very far... "Go, right away", she would say, and already beating me.
Moacir Santos

Then I was already established as an organ teacher, I had to learn all the pedals, the registers, then this one day I went to this music store, and was talking to some teachers there, and mentioned something about who I was, and they said "Moacir Santos"? Are you Moacir Santos?", and they said they had my albums and ... it was Gary Foster. He was one of the teachers, and he asked me if I wanted to teach music there in Pasadena, and that changed my life... I soon after that came to live here, I moved and all that.
Moacir Santos

For example, the American industry doesn't try to internationalize... for example, they prefer that an American musician, who took classes, who learned from Brazilian people, musicians... because he has, still this thing, this industrial thinking which will sell even more, like the American movies, it's the American movies who are still selling...
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