Most people don’t have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
CARLOS SANTANAWhen 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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I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.
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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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There is no greater reward than working from your heart and making a difference in the world.
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I am here to give voice to the invisible.
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All music is important if it comes from the heart.
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Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.
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The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
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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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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.
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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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You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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I have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing.
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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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I am becoming the people I love.
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