Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that ‘s why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I’m just roaming around, vagabonding.
CARLOS SANTANAAll music is important if it comes from the heart.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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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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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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You cannot behave appropriately, unless you perceive correctly. Once you perceive you are a beam of Light, that comes from the mind of God, you will carry yourself differently.
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If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.
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You’re always cursing, you’re always praying and you’re always making love. It ain’t do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do.
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People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
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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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The concept is to weave in some emotion.
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All music is important if it comes from the heart.
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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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I would invite all Latin people to do nothing for about two weeks so you can see who really, really is running the economy I am here to give voice to the invisible.
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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 more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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