I think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.
CARLOS SANTANAOne day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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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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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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A lot of people said to me, ‘Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!’
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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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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 are not realistic unless you believe in miracles!
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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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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You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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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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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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Your wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling.
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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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If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that’s what it’s all about.
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I would invite all Latin people to do nothing for about two weeks so you can see who really, really is running the economy I am here to give voice to the invisible.
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