When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didnt listen to music for four days – thats a long time for me.
CARLOS SANTANAYour wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
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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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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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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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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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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 cannot behave appropriately, unless you perceive correctly. Once you perceive you are a beam of Light, that comes from the mind of God, you will carry yourself differently.
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There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
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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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Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It’s a decision.
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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 think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.
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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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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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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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Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain… you hear them and they’re affixed to you.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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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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Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.
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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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Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.
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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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People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
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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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I have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing.
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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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