The guitar is your first wings. It’s assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.
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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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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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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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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I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It’s not like I’m cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.
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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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I think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.
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The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
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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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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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Music rearranges your molecular structure.
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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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Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain… you hear them and they’re affixed to you.
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Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It’s a decision.
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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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