Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain… you hear them and they’re affixed to you.
CARLOS SANTANAI think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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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 have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing.
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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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The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
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Music rearranges your molecular structure.
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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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Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
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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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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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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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When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
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Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, ‘Oh man, this is the stuff.’ It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.
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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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There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you’re part of the solution.
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