I am becoming the people I love.
CARLOS SANTANAIf 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.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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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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The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
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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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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 knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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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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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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Music rearranges your molecular structure.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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