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There is no greater reward than working from your heart and making a difference in the world.

Carlos Santana

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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Instrument Music Myself Realization Time
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
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
You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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Change Evil Love Myself Start
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
Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
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Chord Disappear Gravity Note Surrender 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
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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Best Better Each Other Myself Reality
I am becoming the people I love.
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Deep Love Myself People Transformation
Your wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling.
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Age Appearance Old Wrinkle Yourself
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
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 don’t eat meat because meat brings out negative qualities such as fear, anger, anxiety, aggressiveness, etc. Vegetables peacefully offer themselves to the earth when ripe, thus allowing a sublime and peaceful thought-consciousness.
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Aggressive Angry Anxiety Fear Negative Quality
Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain… you hear them and they’re affixed to you.
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Brain Song Tattoo Yourself
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
I am here to give voice to the invisible.
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Invisible Myself Space Voice

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