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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

Carlos Santana

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
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
All music is important if it comes from the heart.
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Heart Important Music
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 people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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People Shame Yourself
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
The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
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Growth Life Worst 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
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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Connection Heart Language Music
There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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Beautiful Miracle Nature Sunrise
Bring the brothers home, and sisters home now. Legalize marijuana and take all that money and invest it in teachers and in education. You will see a transformation in America.
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Brother Country Home Legal Money Sister Transformation
My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
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Cry Honesty Laughter Life Music Myself People Spiritual
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
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
You’re always cursing, you’re always praying and you’re always making love. It ain’t do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do.
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Curse Love Myself Prayer
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 knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

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