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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.

Carlos Santana

The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
CARLOS SANTANA

Growth Life Worst Yourself
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.
CARLOS SANTANA

Appeal Artist Kind Myself Person Walk
The guitar is your first wings. It’s assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.
CARLOS SANTANA

Assignment Guitar Imagination Wings Yourself
I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.
CARLOS SANTANA

Instrument Music Myself Realization Time
No one’s better than me. I’m not better than anyone. Whether it’s Eric Clapton or BB King we look straight at each other. And that keeps it real.
CARLOS SANTANA

Best Better Each Other Myself Reality
I’m ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I’m really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.
CARLOS SANTANA

Gratitude Myself Possible Ready
One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart.
CARLOS SANTANA

Border Boundary Future Heart Peace Tolerance
When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
CARLOS SANTANA

Appearance Beyond Heart Yourself
If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.
CARLOS SANTANA

Meditation Need People Success Yourself
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 SANTANA

Beginning Future Live Past People Prison
There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets.
CARLOS SANTANA

Flower Important Music Notes Place Value
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
The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It’s more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.
CARLOS SANTANA

Guitar Inspirational Music People Possible Wake Up
When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.
CARLOS SANTANA

Food Garden Small Smell Spiritual
First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
CARLOS SANTANA

Black Credit Music People
There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
CARLOS SANTANA

Enthusiasm Feeling Planet

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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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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