If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
CARLOS SANTANAMy 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.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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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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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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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.
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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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Your mind is a magnet. You don’t attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
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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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The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
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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-consciousness.
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