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You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.

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
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
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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Dimension Feeling Harmony Healing Love Myself Present Wisdom
If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that’s what it’s all about.
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Challenge History Move Musician Spiritual
If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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Carry Healing Heart Moments 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
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
I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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Demon Myself Weakness
When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didnt listen to music for four days – thats a long time for me.
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Father Listening Music Myself Pass Time
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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Invisible Invitation Myself Run Voice
The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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People Shame Yourself
If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.
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Meditation Need People Success Yourself
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’.
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Floor Guitar Play Yourself
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
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
Ever since I was a child I’ve always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there’s always a melody in there.
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Attraction Children Myself Ocean Wind

You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.

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