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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.

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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Roaming
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Wake
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Beyond
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Around
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Vagabonding

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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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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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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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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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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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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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Music rearranges your molecular structure.
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Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
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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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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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There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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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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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 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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Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears...wi th one chord
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