The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
CARLOS SANTANAThe music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It’s more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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If You’re going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in town. And if You’re going to play the guitar, really, really, really get in it, and don’t be jivin’.
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I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It’s not like I’m cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.
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Music rearranges your molecular structure.
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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 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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Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
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You cannot behave appropriately, unless you perceive correctly. Once you perceive you are a beam of Light, that comes from the mind of God, you will carry yourself differently.
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There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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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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Whether 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.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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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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Most people don’t have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
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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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