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 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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Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.
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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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Music rearranges your molecular structure.
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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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There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
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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.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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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.
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You are not realistic unless you believe in miracles!
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If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.
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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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I would invite all Latin people to do nothing for about two weeks so you can see who really, really is running the economy I am here to give voice to the invisible.
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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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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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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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