The guitar is your first wings. It’s assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.
CARLOS SANTANABlues 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.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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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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If you stay in your heart you will always be inspired and if you are inspired you will always be enthusiastic. There is nothing more contagious on this planet as enthusiasm.
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You are not realistic unless you believe in miracles!
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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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If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.
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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 worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
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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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When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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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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The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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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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Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.
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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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