All music is important if it comes from the heart.
CARLOS SANTANAI have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can’t have it both ways.
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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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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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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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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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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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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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Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It’s a decision.
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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.
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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
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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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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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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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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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