The guitar is your first wings. It’s assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.
CARLOS SANTANAMost people don’t have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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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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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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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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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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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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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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When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.
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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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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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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets.
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There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
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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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