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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.

Carlos Santana

People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
CARLOS SANTANA

Flower Hose Musician People
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.
CARLOS SANTANA

Lyrics Player Simplicity Transcendence Wake Up Yourself
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.
CARLOS SANTANA

Aggressive Angry Anxiety Fear Negative Quality
The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
CARLOS SANTANA

Devil Dirt Gold Separate
I’m laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.
CARLOS SANTANA

Existence Home Laughter Life Myself Secret Validate Value
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.
CARLOS SANTANA

Challenge History Move Musician Spiritual
Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.
CARLOS SANTANA

Man Miracle Music Note Time
A lot of people said to me, ‘Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!’
CARLOS SANTANA

Enough Guitar People Play
I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
CARLOS SANTANA

Demon Myself Weakness
Your mind is a magnet. You don’t attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
CARLOS SANTANA

Attraction Love Magnet Mindset Myself
You cannot behave appropriately, unless you perceive correctly. Once you perceive you are a beam of Light, that comes from the mind of God, you will carry yourself differently.
CARLOS SANTANA

Behavior Carry Correct Different God Light Mindset Yourself
I am here to give voice to the invisible.
CARLOS SANTANA

Invisible Myself Space Voice
Your wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling.
CARLOS SANTANA

Age Appearance Old Wrinkle Yourself
You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
CARLOS SANTANA

Change Evil Love Myself Start
I think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.
CARLOS SANTANA

Day Music Myself Thinking
Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can’t have it both ways.
CARLOS SANTANA

Fear Grace Live Walk Way Yourself

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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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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