When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didnt listen to music for four days – thats a long time for me.
CARLOS SANTANALive up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can’t have it both ways.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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All music is important if it comes from the heart.
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You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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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 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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You meditate and you got the candles, you got the incense and you’ve been chanting, and all of a sudden you hear this voice: ‘Write this down’
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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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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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No one’s better than me. I’m not better than anyone. Whether it’s Eric Clapton or BB King we look straight at each other. And that keeps it real.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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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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Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
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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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There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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I think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.
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