All music is important if it comes from the heart.
CARLOS SANTANAIf you stay in your heart you will always be inspired and if you are inspired you will always be enthusiastic. There is nothing more contagious on this planet as enthusiasm.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.
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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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The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
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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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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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You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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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.
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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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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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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 person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
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I know I’m not the kind of person who’s gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock ‘n’ roll artists. They just play their hits and that’s it. That doesn’t appeal to me.
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Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It’s a decision.
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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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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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Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
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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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Your mind is a magnet. You don’t attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
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My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
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You’re always cursing, you’re always praying and you’re always making love. It ain’t do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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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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