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I think of music as a menu. I can't eat the same thing every day.

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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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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There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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If You're going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in town. And if You're going to play the guitar, really, really, really get in it, and don't be jivin'.
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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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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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I invite you, wholeheartedly, to read books that remind you of your highest self and emancipate you from mental slavery or false beliefs and illusions. The more you invest in attracting books that resonate with the frequency of your true self, the more light you will bring to the world.
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When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
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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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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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You've got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears...wi th one chord
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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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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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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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No one's better than me. I'm not better than anyone. Whether it's Eric Clapton or BB King we look straight at each other. And that keeps it real.
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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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If you stay in your heart you will always be inspired and if you are inspired you will always be enthusiastic. There is nothing more contagious on this planet as enthusiasm.
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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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