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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.

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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Hendrix
Dreaming
Possibilities
Guitar
Hero
Possibility
Dream
Music
Wakes

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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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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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Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.
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The concept is to weave in some emotion.
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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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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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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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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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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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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 think of music as a menu. I can't eat the same thing every day.
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Music rearranges your molecular structure.
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There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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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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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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I am here to give voice to the invisible.
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