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There’s a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.

Carlos Santana

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
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
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
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
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
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
There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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Divine Light Live Yourself
I am becoming the people I love.
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Deep Love Myself People Transformation
The concept is to weave in some emotion.
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Concept Emotion Weave
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
The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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People Shame Yourself
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
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
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
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
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

There’s a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.

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There’s a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.

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