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The guitar is your first wings. It’s assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

Carlos Santana

When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
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Appearance Beyond Heart Yourself
Your wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling.
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Age Appearance Old Wrinkle 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
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
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
I know I’m not the kind of person who’s gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock ‘n’ roll artists. They just play their hits and that’s it. That doesn’t appeal to me.
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Appeal Artist Kind Myself Person Walk
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
All music is important if it comes from the heart.
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Heart Important Music
If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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Carry Healing Heart Moments Yourself
The concept is to weave in some emotion.
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Concept Emotion Weave
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
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
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 am becoming the people I love.
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Deep Love Myself People Transformation
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
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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Gratitude Myself Possible Ready

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