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People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.

Carlos Santana

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
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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Beginning Future Live Past People Prison
There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Feeling Planet
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’
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Candle Meditation Voice Writing Yourself
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
Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Drop Illusion Luggage
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
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
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
Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
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Chord Disappear Gravity Note Surrender Yourself
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 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
There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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Beautiful Miracle Nature Sunrise
The concept is to weave in some emotion.
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Concept Emotion Weave
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 knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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Demon Myself Weakness

People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.

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