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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’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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Change Evil Love Myself Start
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
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Devil Dirt Gold Separate
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
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
People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
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Flower Hose Musician People
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
The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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People Shame Yourself

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