If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.
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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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 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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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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People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
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If you stay in your heart you will always be inspired and if you are inspired you will always be enthusiastic. There is nothing more contagious on this planet as enthusiasm.
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Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It’s a decision.
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A lot of people said to me, ‘Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!’
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First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
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There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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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.
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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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You are not realistic unless you believe in miracles!
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Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain… you hear them and they’re affixed to you.
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I think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.
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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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