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.
CARLOS SANTANAThere is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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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 worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
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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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All music is important if it comes from the heart.
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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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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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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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There is no greater reward than working from your heart and making a difference in the world.
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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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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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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 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 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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The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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Most 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.
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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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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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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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Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.
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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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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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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’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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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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I am becoming the people I love.
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