Your wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling.
CARLOS SANTANAI am here to give voice to the invisible.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
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The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
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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.
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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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You are not realistic unless you believe in miracles!
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The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It’s more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.
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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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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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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.
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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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The guitar is your first wings. It’s assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.
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Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can’t have it both ways.
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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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The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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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’.
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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.
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All music is important if it comes from the heart.
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If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.
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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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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 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.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Music rearranges your molecular structure.
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I am here to give voice to the invisible.
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You meditate and you got the candles, you got the incense and you’ve been chanting, and all of a sudden you hear this voice: ‘Write this down’
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