Most people don’t have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
CARLOS SANTANAIf you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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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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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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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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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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You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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I know I’m not the kind of person who’s gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock ‘n’ roll artists. They just play their hits and that’s it. That doesn’t appeal to me.
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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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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 divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
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I think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.
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Music rearranges your molecular structure.
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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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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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Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.
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There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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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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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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I am here to give voice to the invisible.
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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 concept is to weave in some emotion.
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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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Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It’s a decision.
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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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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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