Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 am here to give voice to the invisible.
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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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There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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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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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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The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
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