Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that ‘s why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I’m just roaming around, vagabonding.
CARLOS SANTANAI knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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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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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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Everything 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.
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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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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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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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If You’re going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in town. And if You’re going to play the guitar, really, really, really get in it, and don’t be jivin’.
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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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People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
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If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.
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Music rearranges your molecular structure.
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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.
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The concept is to weave in some emotion.
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I think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.
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