Most people don’t have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
CARLOS SANTANAIf you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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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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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’s a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.
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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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There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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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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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 knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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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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Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.
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Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It’s a decision.
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My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
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There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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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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The guitar is your first wings. It’s assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.
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