One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart.
CARLOS SANTANAEverybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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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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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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I 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.
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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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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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 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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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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The guitar is your first wings. It’s assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.
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Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.
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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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