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.
CARLOS SANTANAThere’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.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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I don’t eat meat because meat brings out negative qualities such as fear, anger, anxiety, aggressiveness, etc. Vegetables peacefully offer themselves to the earth when ripe, thus allowing a sublime and peaceful thought-consciousness.
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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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The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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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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Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain… you hear them and they’re affixed to you.
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Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It’s a decision.
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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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Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.
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The best part of touring, still, is touching people’s hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.
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The concept is to weave in some emotion.
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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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I think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.
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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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