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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
Towns
Guitar
Anybody
Better
Play
Going
Sweep
Really
Floor
Town

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There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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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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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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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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He just seems as cool as ever. I can smell him. Even on the other side, there is smell. Like, when babies are born, there's two smells-one is chicken soup, which is the flesh, and the other is lilacs, which is coming from the spiritual garden. The spirit has a lilac smell.
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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 am here to give voice to the invisible.
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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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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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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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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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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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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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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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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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