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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'.

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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Towns
Guitar
Anybody
Better
Play
Going
Sweep
Really
Floor

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I am here to give voice to the invisible.
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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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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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KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.
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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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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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You've got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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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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Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.
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There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
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Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears...wi th one chord
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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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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
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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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Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.
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Disposicion a transformacion personal es clave para Iluminacion Global.
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Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.
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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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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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