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.
CARLOS SANTANAIf you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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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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You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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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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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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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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Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
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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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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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Music rearranges your molecular structure.
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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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The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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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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The concept is to weave in some emotion.
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I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that’s okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can’t ever rest on your laurels.
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There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
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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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The best part of touring, still, is touching people’s hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.
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I am becoming the people I love.
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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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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
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I am here to give voice to the invisible.
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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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When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
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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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