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.
CARLOS SANTANAYou’re always cursing, you’re always praying and you’re always making love. It ain’t do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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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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Music rearranges your molecular structure.
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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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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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The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
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You cannot behave appropriately, unless you perceive correctly. Once you perceive you are a beam of Light, that comes from the mind of God, you will carry yourself differently.
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Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
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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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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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I am here to give voice to the invisible.
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There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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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 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.
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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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