Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain… you hear them and they’re affixed to you.
CARLOS SANTANAEverything 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.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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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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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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Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.
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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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Bring the brothers home, and sisters home now. Legalize marijuana and take all that money and invest it in teachers and in education. You will see a transformation in America.
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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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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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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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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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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’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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I would invite all Latin people to do nothing for about two weeks so you can see who really, really is running the economy I am here to give voice to the invisible.
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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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I think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.
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Your wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling.
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