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.
CARLOS SANTANAThe people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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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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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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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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Your wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling.
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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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Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
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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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The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
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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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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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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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The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It’s more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.
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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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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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You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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