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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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Music
Wakes
People
Hendrix
Dreaming
Possibilities
Guitar
Hero
Possibility

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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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The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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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 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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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 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 nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
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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!'
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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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Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.
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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.
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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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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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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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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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