Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can’t have it both ways.
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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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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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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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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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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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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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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Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain… you hear them and they’re affixed to you.
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You are not realistic unless you believe in miracles!
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Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It’s a decision.
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There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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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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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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Your wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling.
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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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You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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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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I’m laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.
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When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didnt listen to music for four days – thats a long time for me.
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The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
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The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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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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Music rearranges your molecular structure.
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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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I know I’m not the kind of person who’s gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock ‘n’ roll artists. They just play their hits and that’s it. That doesn’t appeal to me.
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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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