I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
CARLOS SANTANAThe people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be 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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Music rearranges your molecular structure.
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You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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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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People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
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The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Your wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling.
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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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