A lot of people said to me, ‘Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!’
CARLOS SANTANAThere 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.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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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.
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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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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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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.
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One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart.
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There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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I am here to give voice to the invisible.
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There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
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When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
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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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Your wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling.
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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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