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Carlos Santana
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 20
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Jazz Guitarist
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Carlos Augusto Alves Santana
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Whether you are doing it in the bar, the church, the strip joint, or the Himalayas, the first duty of music is to complement and enhance life.
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If You're going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in town. And if You're going to play the guitar, really, really, really get in it, and don't be jivin'.
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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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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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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 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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One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart
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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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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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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 grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.
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There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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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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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.
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I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.
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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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Music rearranges your molecular structure.
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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
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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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