The guitar is your first wings. It’s assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.
CARLOS SANTANASurrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that’s okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can’t ever rest on your laurels.
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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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You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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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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The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
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There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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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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Most people don’t have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
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People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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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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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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