First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
CARLOS SANTANAI 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.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It’s a decision.
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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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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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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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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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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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I 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.
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I have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing.
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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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There is no greater reward than working from your heart and making a difference in the world.
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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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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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The concept is to weave in some emotion.
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Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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