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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'

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
Sudden
Hear
Satanism
Voice
Incense
Write
Satanic
Writing
Candles
Chanting
Meditate
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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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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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Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears...wi th one chord
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The concept is to weave in some emotion.
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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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You've got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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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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