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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

Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
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Chord Disappear Gravity Note Surrender Yourself
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 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
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
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
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
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
You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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Change Evil Love Myself Start
I would invite all Latin people to do nothing for about two weeks so you can see who really, really is running the economy I am here to give voice to the invisible.
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Invisible Invitation Myself Run Voice
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 Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
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Devil Dirt Gold Separate
If you stay in your heart you will always be inspired and if you are inspired you will always be enthusiastic. There is nothing more contagious on this planet as enthusiasm.
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Enthusiastic Heart Inspirational Planet Stay Yourself
Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It’s a decision.
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Decision Destination Experience Happiness
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
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
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
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Heart Instrument Open Peace Possession Powerful Value Weapon Yourself
One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart.
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Border Boundary Future Heart Peace Tolerance
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
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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Concept Fake Musician Myself Play
People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
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Flower Hose Musician People
There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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Divine Light Live Yourself
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
I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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Demon Myself Weakness
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
There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Feeling Planet
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

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