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

Carlos Santana

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
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

Floor Guitar Play Yourself
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.
CARLOS SANTANA

Honesty Love Man Myself Rebel Sound
Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you’re part of the solution.
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Angry Battle Field Problem Solution Yourself
There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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Beautiful Miracle Nature Sunrise
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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Flower Important Music Notes Place Value
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
If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.
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Meditation Need People Success Yourself
Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can’t have it both ways.
CARLOS SANTANA

Fear Grace Live Walk Way Yourself
I don’t eat meat because meat brings out negative qualities such as fear, anger, anxiety, aggressiveness, etc. Vegetables peacefully offer themselves to the earth when ripe, thus allowing a sublime and peaceful thought-consciousness.
CARLOS SANTANA

Aggressive Angry Anxiety Fear Negative Quality
You cannot behave appropriately, unless you perceive correctly. Once you perceive you are a beam of Light, that comes from the mind of God, you will carry yourself differently.
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Behavior Carry Correct Different God Light Mindset Yourself
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
Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It’s a decision.
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Decision Destination Experience Happiness
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
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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Brother Country Home Legal Money Sister Transformation
I’m laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.
CARLOS SANTANA

Existence Home Laughter Life Myself Secret Validate Value

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