I am here to give voice to the invisible.
CARLOS SANTANAWhen my father passed away two or three years ago, I didnt listen to music for four days – thats a long time for me.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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If You’re going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in town. And if You’re going to play the guitar, really, really, really get in it, and don’t be jivin’.
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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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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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First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
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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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You meditate and you got the candles, you got the incense and you’ve been chanting, and all of a sudden you hear this voice: ‘Write this down’
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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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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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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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Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
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There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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I am becoming the people I love.
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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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