"The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.“

-Carlos Santana

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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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"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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"My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved."

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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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"My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly."

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"First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that."

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"Develop an interest in life as you see it the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."

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"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary."

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"Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul."

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