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The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
Carlos Santana
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Carlos Santana
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 20
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Carlos Augusto Alves Santana
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I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.
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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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...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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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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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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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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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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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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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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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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I have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing.
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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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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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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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Disposicion a transformacion personal es clave para Iluminacion Global.
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There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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