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 SANTANAPeace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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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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The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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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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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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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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Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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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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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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People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
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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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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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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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There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
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There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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