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.
CARLOS SANTANAIf you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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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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Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.
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If you stay in your heart you will always be inspired and if you are inspired you will always be enthusiastic. There is nothing more contagious on this planet as enthusiasm.
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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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All music is important if it comes from the heart.
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Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you’re part of the solution.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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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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You are not realistic unless you believe in miracles!
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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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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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I am becoming the people I love.
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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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The guitar is your first wings. It’s assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.
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