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.
CARLOS SANTANAThe music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It’s more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.
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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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Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.
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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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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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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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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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People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
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You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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All music is important if it comes from the heart.
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There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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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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The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
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There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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I am becoming the people I love.
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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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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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The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
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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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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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If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.
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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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The concept is to weave in some emotion.
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There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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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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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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