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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
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Autlán
Carlos Augusto Alves Santana
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Horny
Moving
Spiritually
History
Musicians
Keep
Hungry
Next
Wave
Changing
Challenge
Musician

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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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Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.
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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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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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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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He just seems as cool as ever. I can smell him. Even on the other side, there is smell. Like, when babies are born, there's two smells-one is chicken soup, which is the flesh, and the other is lilacs, which is coming from the spiritual garden. The spirit has a lilac smell.
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There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.
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You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.
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When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
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I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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The concept is to weave in some emotion.
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Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can't have it both ways.
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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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