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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.

Carlos Santana

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
The guitar is your first wings. It’s assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.
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Assignment Guitar Imagination Wings 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
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
You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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Change Evil Love Myself Start
The best part of touring, still, is touching people’s hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.
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Best Emotion Heart Myself People Sound Touch
There is no greater reward than working from your heart and making a difference in the world.
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Difference Greatness Reward Work World
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
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
If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
CARLOS SANTANA

Carry Healing Heart Moments 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
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
Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that ‘s why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I’m just roaming around, vagabonding.
CARLOS SANTANA

Beyond Myself Opportunity Roam Time Wake Up
There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Feeling Planet
Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain… you hear them and they’re affixed to you.
CARLOS SANTANA

Brain Song Tattoo Yourself
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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Flower Important Music Notes Place Value

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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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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