Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It’s a decision.
CARLOS SANTANAThe guitar is your first wings. It’s assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
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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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Music rearranges your molecular structure.
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The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
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I am here to give voice to the invisible.
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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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A lot of people said to me, ‘Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!’
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People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
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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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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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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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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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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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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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