I think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.
CARLOS SANTANAMost people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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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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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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Your wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling.
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You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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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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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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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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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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There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
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Music rearranges your molecular structure.
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All music is important if it comes from the heart.
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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 is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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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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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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