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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.

Carlos Santana

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.
CARLOS SANTANA

Curse Love Myself Prayer
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.
CARLOS SANTANA

Challenge History Move Musician Spiritual
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.
CARLOS SANTANA

Invisible Invitation Myself Run Voice
Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can’t have it both ways.
CARLOS SANTANA

Fear Grace Live Walk Way Yourself
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.
CARLOS SANTANA

Beyond Myself Opportunity Roam Time Wake Up
Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.
CARLOS SANTANA

Man Miracle Music Note Time
Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
CARLOS SANTANA

Drop Illusion Luggage
I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
CARLOS SANTANA

Demon Myself Weakness
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.
CARLOS SANTANA

Best Emotion Heart Myself People Sound Touch
All music is important if it comes from the heart.
CARLOS SANTANA

Heart Important Music
One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart.
CARLOS SANTANA

Border Boundary Future Heart Peace Tolerance
A lot of people said to me, ‘Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!’
CARLOS SANTANA

Enough Guitar People Play
No one’s better than me. I’m not better than anyone. Whether it’s Eric Clapton or BB King we look straight at each other. And that keeps it real.
CARLOS SANTANA

Best Better Each Other Myself Reality
Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain… you hear them and they’re affixed to you.
CARLOS SANTANA

Brain Song Tattoo Yourself
People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
CARLOS SANTANA

Flower Hose Musician People
There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
CARLOS SANTANA

Beautiful Miracle Nature Sunrise

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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