You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
CARLOS SANTANAEverything 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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I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It’s not like I’m cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.
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All music is important if it comes from the heart.
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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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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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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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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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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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There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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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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The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
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Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It’s a decision.
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Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.
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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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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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The concept is to weave in some emotion.
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