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.
CARLOS SANTANAI think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
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There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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You’re always cursing, you’re always praying and you’re always making love. It ain’t do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do.
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If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.
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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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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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I am here to give voice to the invisible.
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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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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.
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You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.
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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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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
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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.
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