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I am here to give voice to the invisible.

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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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'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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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you're part of the solution.
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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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...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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Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.
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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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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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Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears...wi th one chord
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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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There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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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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Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.
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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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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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The concept is to weave in some emotion.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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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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