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.
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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Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
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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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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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No one’s better than me. I’m not better than anyone. Whether it’s Eric Clapton or BB King we look straight at each other. And that keeps it real.
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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’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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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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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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The best part of touring, still, is touching people’s hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.
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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 nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
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Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.
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The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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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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The concept is to weave in some emotion.
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