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.
CARLOS SANTANAWhen 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.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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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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Music rearranges your molecular structure.
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If 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.
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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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I am becoming the people I love.
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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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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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There is no greater reward than working from your heart and making a difference in the world.
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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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You are not realistic unless you believe in miracles!
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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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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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I’m ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I’m really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.
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All music is important if it comes from the heart.
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The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
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