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.
CARLOS SANTANAWhether 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.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, ‘Oh man, this is the stuff.’ It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.
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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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You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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The concept is to weave in some emotion.
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I am becoming the people I love.
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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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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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I am here to give voice to the invisible.
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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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People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
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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 don’t eat meat because meat brings out negative qualities such as fear, anger, anxiety, aggressiveness, etc. Vegetables peacefully offer themselves to the earth when ripe, thus allowing a sublime and peaceful thought-consciousness.
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Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you’re part of the solution.
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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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You meditate and you got the candles, you got the incense and you’ve been chanting, and all of a sudden you hear this voice: ‘Write this down’
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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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If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.
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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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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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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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Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It’s a decision.
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Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
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There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
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Your mind is a magnet. You don’t attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
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Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain… you hear them and they’re affixed to you.
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