Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can’t have it both ways.
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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Music rearranges your molecular structure.
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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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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 am becoming the people I love.
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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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You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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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 am here to give voice to the invisible.
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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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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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Your wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling.
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There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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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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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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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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