There is no greater reward than working from your heart and making a difference in the world.
CARLOS SANTANAYou’re always cursing, you’re always praying and you’re always making love. It ain’t do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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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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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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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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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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Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It’s a decision.
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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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I think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.
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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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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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Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, ‘Oh man, this is the stuff.’ It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.
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The concept is to weave in some emotion.
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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 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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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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