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No one’s better than me. I’m not better than anyone. Whether it’s Eric Clapton or BB King we look straight at each other. And that keeps it real.

Carlos Santana

Bring the brothers home, and sisters home now. Legalize marijuana and take all that money and invest it in teachers and in education. You will see a transformation in America.
CARLOS SANTANA

Brother Country Home Legal Money Sister Transformation
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
Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Drop Illusion Luggage
If You’re going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in town. And if You’re going to play the guitar, really, really, really get in it, and don’t be jivin’.
CARLOS SANTANA

Floor Guitar Play Yourself
There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Feeling Planet
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
I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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Demon Myself Weakness
Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.
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Divine Education Enlightenment Manner Peace Reality
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
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
When 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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Food Garden Small Smell Spiritual
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 concept is to weave in some emotion.
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Concept Emotion Weave
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
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
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.
CARLOS SANTANA

Lyrics Player Simplicity Transcendence Wake Up Yourself

No one’s better than me. I’m not better than anyone. Whether it’s Eric Clapton or BB King we look straight at each other. And that keeps it real.

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