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When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.

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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Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.
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I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.
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I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.
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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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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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Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears...wi th one chord
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Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.
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I have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing.
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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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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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You've got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets.
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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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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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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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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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The concept is to weave in some emotion.
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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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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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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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