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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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Vagabonding
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Roaming
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If you stay in your heart you will always be inspired and if you are inspired you will always be enthusiastic. There is nothing more contagious on this planet as enthusiasm.
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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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Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.
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There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.
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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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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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Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.
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Bring the brothers home, and sisters home now. Legalize marijuana and take all that money and invest it in teachers and in education. You will see a transformation in America.
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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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I think of music as a menu. I can't eat the same thing every day.
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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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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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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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There is no greater reward than working from your heart and making a difference in the world.
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The concept is to weave in some emotion.
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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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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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