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A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'

Carlos Santana

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Carlos Santana
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 20
Composer
Jazz Guitarist
Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
Autlán
Carlos Augusto Alves Santana
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Mexican
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There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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The concept is to weave in some emotion.
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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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The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
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Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.
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Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.
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I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.
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You've got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.
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When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
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Bring the brothers home, and sisters home now. Legalize marijuana and take all that money and invest it in teachers and in education. You will see a transformation in America.
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Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears...wi th one chord
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Angels cry because they want to experience what you and I feel: the moment. They live in eternity. They dont know what it is like to read a newspaper and get ink on your fingers. They dont know what it is like to take your shoes off and wiggle your toes under the dinner table.
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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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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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First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
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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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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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