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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.

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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Convictions
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Grace
Ways
Fear

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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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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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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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You've got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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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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I think of music as a menu. I can't eat the same thing every day.
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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'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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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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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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Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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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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Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears...wi th one chord
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