The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
CARLOS SANTANA
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.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
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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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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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The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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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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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.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It’s more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.
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Ever since I was a child I’ve always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there’s always a melody in there.
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I’m ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I’m really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.
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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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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 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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You are not realistic unless you believe in miracles!
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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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