The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It’s more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.
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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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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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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People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
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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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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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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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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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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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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain… you hear them and they’re affixed to you.
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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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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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Most people don’t have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
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The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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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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