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A lot of people said to me, ‘Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!’

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.

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.

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.

The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.

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.

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.

KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn’t need the mask.

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.

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

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.

When you fly to New York, sometimes they put you on hold and you just go round and around in a holding pattern. Sometimes in a concert, I feel other spirits in a holding pattern that they want to land through my heart and through my fingers.

I have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing.

It takes strength, man, to know when to let go of your kids, really, really let them go and trust them with the one who made them in the first place.

What is an ego except something that thinks it’s separate from God?

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.

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.

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.

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’.

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Bring the brothers home, and sisters home now. Legalize marijuana and take all that money and invest it in teachers and in education. You will see a transformation in America.

The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.

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.

People get stuck in their stories. My advice is to end your story and begin your life.

I think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.

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.

If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.

Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

I have come to the conclusion – and I don’t know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I’m here now – that a lot of people tell me they don’t get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.

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.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

Disposicion a transformacion personal es clave para Iluminacion Global.

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.

When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didnt listen to music for four days – thats a long time for me.

People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.

I don’t eat meat because meat brings out negative qualities such as fear, anger, anxiety, aggressiveness, etc. Vegetables peacefully offer themselves to the earth when ripe, thus allowing a sublime and peaceful thought-conscio usness.

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

No one’s better than me. I’m not better than anyone. Whether it’s Eric Clapton or BB King we look straight at each other. And that keeps it real.

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

The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.

You are not realistic unless you believe in miracles!

He just seems as cool as ever. I can smell him. Even on the other side, there is smell. Like, when babies are born, there’s two smells-one is chicken soup, which is the flesh, and the other is lilacs, which is coming from the spiritual garden. The spirit has a lilac smell.

I am here to give voice to the invisible.

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.

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.

I am becoming the people I love.

You cannot behave appropriately, unless you perceive correctly. Once you perceive you are a beam of Light, that comes from the mind of God, you will carry yourself differently.

The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.

Music rearranges your molecular structure.

When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.

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