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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

The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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People Shame Yourself
Your mind is a magnet. You don’t attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
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Attraction Love Magnet Mindset Myself
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
Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
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Chord Disappear Gravity Note Surrender 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
The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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Better Choice Depression Patient Service
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
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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Lyrics Player Simplicity Transcendence Wake Up Yourself
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
All music is important if it comes from the heart.
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Heart Important Music
A lot of people said to me, ‘Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!’
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Enough Guitar People Play
The concept is to weave in some emotion.
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Concept Emotion Weave
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
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
If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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Carry Healing Heart Moments Yourself
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.
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Beyond Myself Opportunity Roam Time Wake Up

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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