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" Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life. "
Carlos Santana
Eyes
Just
Life
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" Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions. "
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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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" 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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" The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace. "
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" 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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" There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same. "
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" I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba. "
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" Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling. "
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" Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you. "
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" 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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" 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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Hear
" 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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Spiritual
Two
" 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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Moving
" 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'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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" 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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Life
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Opportunity
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