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I think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.

Carlos Santana

Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain… you hear them and they’re affixed to you.
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Brain Song Tattoo Yourself
The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
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Growth Life Worst Yourself
I am becoming the people I love.
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Deep Love Myself People Transformation
Music rearranges your molecular structure.
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Arrangement Music Structure Yourself
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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Beginning Future Live Past People Prison
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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Concept Fake Musician Myself Play
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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Divine Education Enlightenment Manner Peace Reality
People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
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Flower Hose Musician People
The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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People Shame Yourself
The best part of touring, still, is touching people’s hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.
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Best Emotion Heart Myself People Sound Touch
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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Best Better Each Other Myself Reality
Your wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling.
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Age Appearance Old Wrinkle Yourself
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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Candle Meditation Voice Writing Yourself
Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
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Chord Disappear Gravity Note Surrender Yourself
I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.
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Instrument Music Myself Realization Time
There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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Beautiful Miracle Nature Sunrise

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