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.
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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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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Your wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling.
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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 concept is to weave in some emotion.
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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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The guitar is your first wings. It’s assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.
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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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When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
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There’s a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.
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If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.
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The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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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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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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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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