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.
CARLOS SANTANAIf you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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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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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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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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Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that ‘s why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I’m just roaming around, vagabonding.
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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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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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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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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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The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
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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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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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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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You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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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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The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
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