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If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.

Carlos Santana

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Carlos Santana
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 20
Composer
Jazz Guitarist
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Autlán
Carlos Augusto Alves Santana
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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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...you meditate and you got the candles, you got the incense and you've been chanting, and all of a sudden you hear this voice: 'Write this down'
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I invite you, wholeheartedly, to read books that remind you of your highest self and emancipate you from mental slavery or false beliefs and illusions. The more you invest in attracting books that resonate with the frequency of your true self, the more light you will bring to the world.
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No one's better than me. I'm not better than anyone. Whether it's Eric Clapton or BB King we look straight at each other. And that keeps it real.
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The concept is to weave in some emotion.
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You've got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
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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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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.
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I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.
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You cannot behave appropriately, unless you perceive correctly. Once you perceive you are a beam of Light, that comes from the mind of God, you will carry yourself differently.
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There is no greater reward than working from your heart and making a difference in the world.
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When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.
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I have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing.
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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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When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
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Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you're part of the solution.
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There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
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The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.
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