All music is important if it comes from the heart.
CARLOS SANTANASome songs are just like tattoos for your brain… you hear them and they’re affixed to you.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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I don’t eat meat because meat brings out negative qualities such as fear, anger, anxiety, aggressiveness, etc. Vegetables peacefully offer themselves to the earth when ripe, thus allowing a sublime and peaceful thought-consciousness.
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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 is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
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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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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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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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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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Music rearranges your molecular structure.
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I am becoming the people I love.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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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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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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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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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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There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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