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If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.

Carlos Santana

All music is important if it comes from the heart.
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Heart Important Music
Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Drop Illusion Luggage
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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Attraction Children Myself Ocean Wind
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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Gratitude Myself Possible Ready
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
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 Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
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Devil Dirt Gold Separate
You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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Change Evil Love Myself Start
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
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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Floor Guitar Play 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’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.
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Existence Home Laughter Life Myself Secret Validate Value
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.
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Honesty Love Man Myself Rebel Sound
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
There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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Divine Light Live Yourself
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
If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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Carry Healing Heart Moments Yourself
The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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People Shame Yourself
I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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Demon Myself Weakness
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
Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.
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Man Miracle Music Note Time
The concept is to weave in some emotion.
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Concept Emotion Weave
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
There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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Beautiful Miracle Nature Sunrise
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.
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Beyond Myself Opportunity Roam Time Wake Up
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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Black Credit Music People
There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Feeling Planet

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