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 SANTANABring 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.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets.
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I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that’s okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can’t ever rest on your laurels.
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I am here to give voice to the invisible.
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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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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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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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If you stay in your heart you will always be inspired and if you are inspired you will always be enthusiastic. There is nothing more contagious on this planet as enthusiasm.
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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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You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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The concept is to weave in some emotion.
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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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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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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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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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There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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