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There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.

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
Contagious
Enthusiasm
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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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The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
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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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The concept is to weave in some emotion.
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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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I think of music as a menu. I can't eat the same thing every day.
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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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Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.
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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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Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.
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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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Music rearranges your molecular structure.
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Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears...wi th one chord
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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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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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Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.
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I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.
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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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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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When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
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