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.
CARLOS SANTANAI 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.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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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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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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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 am here to give voice to the invisible.
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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.
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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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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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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 are not realistic unless you believe in miracles!
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets.
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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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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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