Bring the brothers home, and sisters home now. Legalize marijuana and take all that money and invest it in teachers and in education. You will see a transformation in America.
CARLOS SANTANAI 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.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.
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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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Your wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling.
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The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
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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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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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I think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.
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I’m laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.
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There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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There is no greater reward than working from your heart and making a difference in the world.
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Your mind is a magnet. You don’t attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
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I am here to give voice to the invisible.
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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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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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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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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
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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.
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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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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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The concept is to weave in some emotion.
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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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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.
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Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
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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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