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A lot of people said to me, ‘Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!’

Carlos Santana

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
I think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.
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Day Music Myself Thinking
When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
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Appearance Beyond Heart 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!’
CARLOS SANTANA

Enough Guitar People Play
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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Food Garden Small Smell Spiritual
Music rearranges your molecular structure.
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Arrangement Music Structure 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
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
There is no greater reward than working from your heart and making a difference in the world.
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Difference Greatness Reward Work World
The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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Better Choice Depression Patient Service
Your wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling.
CARLOS SANTANA

Age Appearance Old Wrinkle Yourself
If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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Carry Healing Heart Moments Yourself
There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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Healing Love Person Save Soul
I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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Demon Myself Weakness
Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
CARLOS SANTANA

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.
CARLOS SANTANA

Attraction Children Myself Ocean Wind

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