Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
CARLOS SANTANAThe music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It’s more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
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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.
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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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Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain… you hear them and they’re affixed to 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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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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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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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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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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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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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 am here to give voice to the invisible.
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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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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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