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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’

Carlos Santana

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.
CARLOS SANTANA

Curse Love Myself Prayer
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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Beyond Myself Opportunity Roam Time Wake Up
I think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.
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Day Music Myself Thinking
I’m laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.
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Existence Home Laughter Life Myself Secret Validate Value
If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that’s what it’s all about.
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Challenge History Move Musician Spiritual
People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
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Flower Hose Musician People
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
The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
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Devil Dirt Gold Separate
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 no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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Healing Love Person Save Soul
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
When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
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Appearance Beyond Heart Yourself
Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It’s a decision.
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Decision Destination Experience Happiness
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
Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain… you hear them and they’re affixed to you.
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Brain Song Tattoo Yourself
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.
CARLOS SANTANA

Aggressive Angry Anxiety Fear Negative Quality

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