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.
CARLOS SANTANAEverybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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I think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.
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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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If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.
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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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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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All music is important if it comes from the heart.
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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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Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.
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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 worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
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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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The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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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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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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