A lot of people said to me, ‘Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!’
CARLOS SANTANAThe most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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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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First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
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I’m laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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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 no greater reward than working from your heart and making a difference in the world.
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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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Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It’s a decision.
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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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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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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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All music is important if it comes from the heart.
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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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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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