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.
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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If you stay in your heart you will always be inspired and if you are inspired you will always be enthusiastic. There is nothing more contagious on this planet as enthusiasm.
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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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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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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!
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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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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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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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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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I am here to give voice to the invisible.
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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 think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.
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I have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing.
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There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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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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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.
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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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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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When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
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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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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 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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Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It’s a decision.
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I am becoming the people I love.
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