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.
CARLOS SANTANAEver 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.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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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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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.
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Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, ‘Oh man, this is the stuff.’ It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.
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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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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.
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People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
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Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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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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Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.
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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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