A lot of people said to me, ‘Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!’
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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You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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I am becoming the people I love.
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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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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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The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
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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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The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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I don’t eat meat because meat brings out negative qualities such as fear, anger, anxiety, aggressiveness, etc. Vegetables peacefully offer themselves to the earth when ripe, thus allowing a sublime and peaceful thought-consciousness.
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One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart.
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The concept is to weave in some emotion.
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I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It’s not like I’m cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.
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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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Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.
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The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It’s more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.
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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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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.
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There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
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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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The guitar is your first wings. It’s assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.
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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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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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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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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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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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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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