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I have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing.

Carlos Santana

The concept is to weave in some emotion.
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Concept Emotion Weave
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
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 nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Feeling Planet
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
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
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
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
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
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
Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Drop Illusion Luggage
Music rearranges your molecular structure.
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Arrangement Music Structure 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
All music is important if it comes from the heart.
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Heart Important Music
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

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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