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 SANTANAIf you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Music rearranges your molecular structure.
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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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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.
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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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The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
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The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
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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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When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didnt listen to music for four days – thats a long time for me.
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If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.
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If You’re going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in town. And if You’re going to play the guitar, really, really, really get in it, and don’t be jivin’.
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