Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
CARLOS SANTANAFirst of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
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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People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
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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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When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
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The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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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 think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.
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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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All music is important if it comes from the heart.
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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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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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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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You are not realistic unless you believe in miracles!
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There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
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When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didnt listen to music for four days – thats a long time for me.
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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 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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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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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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You meditate and you got the candles, you got the incense and you’ve been chanting, and all of a sudden you hear this voice: ‘Write this down’
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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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You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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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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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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