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When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didnt listen to music for four days – thats a long time for me.

Carlos Santana

The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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People Shame Yourself
A lot of people said to me, ‘Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!’
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Enough Guitar People Play
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.
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Aggressive Angry Anxiety Fear Negative Quality
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 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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Enthusiastic Heart Inspirational Planet Stay Yourself
I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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Demon Myself Weakness
The guitar is your first wings. It’s assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.
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Assignment Guitar Imagination Wings 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
There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Feeling Planet
My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
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Cry Honesty Laughter Life Music Myself People Spiritual
You’re always cursing, you’re always praying and you’re always making love. It ain’t do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do.
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Curse Love Myself Prayer
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
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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Fear Grace Live Walk Way 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
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
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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Bad Break Habit People Talk Victim Willing
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
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Heart Instrument Open Peace Possession Powerful Value Weapon 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
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
Music rearranges your molecular structure.
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Arrangement Music Structure Yourself
Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
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Chord Disappear Gravity Note Surrender Yourself
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
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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Lyrics Player Simplicity Transcendence Wake Up Yourself
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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Border Boundary Future Heart Peace Tolerance
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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Dimension Feeling Harmony Healing Love Myself Present Wisdom
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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Bar Compliment Life Music Religion Yourself
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

Beyond Myself Opportunity Roam Time Wake Up

When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didnt listen to music for four days – thats a long time for me.

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