I think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.
CARLOS SANTANAMy 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.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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Ever since I was a child I’ve always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there’s always a melody in there.
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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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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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I am here to give voice to the invisible.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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There is no greater reward than working from your heart and making a difference in the world.
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People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
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There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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You are not realistic unless you believe in miracles!
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Whether you are doing it in the bar, the church, the strip joint, or the Himalayas, the first duty of music is to complement and enhance life.
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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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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 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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Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain… you hear them and they’re affixed to you.
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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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