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One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart.

Carlos Santana

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
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
I think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.
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Day Music Myself Thinking
People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
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Flower Hose Musician People
Music rearranges your molecular structure.
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Arrangement Music Structure Yourself
The best part of touring, still, is touching people’s hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.
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Best Emotion Heart Myself People Sound Touch
The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It’s more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.
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Guitar Inspirational Music People Possible Wake Up
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
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
Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It’s a decision.
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Decision Destination Experience Happiness
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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 am becoming the people I love.
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Deep Love Myself People Transformation
Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Drop Illusion Luggage
When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
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Appearance Beyond Heart 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
If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.
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Meditation Need People Success Yourself
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
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 knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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Demon Myself Weakness

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