I know I’m not the kind of person who’s gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock ‘n’ roll artists. They just play their hits and that’s it. That doesn’t appeal to me.
CARLOS SANTANAA lot of people said to me, ‘Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!’
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.
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If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that’s what it’s all about.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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I’m ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I’m really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.
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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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The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It’s more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.
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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.
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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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There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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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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Bring the brothers home, and sisters home now. Legalize marijuana and take all that money and invest it in teachers and in education. You will see a transformation in America.
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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.
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I think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.
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I am here to give voice to the invisible.
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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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There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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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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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
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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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The concept is to weave in some emotion.
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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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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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