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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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...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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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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There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets.
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When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
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Music rearranges your molecular structure.
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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 is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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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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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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Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.
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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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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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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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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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Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to 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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Disposicion a transformacion personal es clave para Iluminacion Global.
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I would invite all Latin people to do nothing for about two weeks so you can see who really, really is running the economy I am here to give voice to the invisible.
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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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I am here to give voice to the invisible.
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