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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
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Singer-Songwriter
Autlán
Carlos Augusto Alves Santana
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You've got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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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 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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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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Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.
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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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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 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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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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There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
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Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.
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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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I am here to give voice to the invisible.
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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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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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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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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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