Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It’s a decision.
CARLOS SANTANAPeace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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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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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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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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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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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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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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When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
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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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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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If You’re going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in town. And if You’re going to play the guitar, really, really, really get in it, and don’t be jivin’.
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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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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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Your wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling.
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I think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.
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