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.
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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All music is important if it comes from the heart.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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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 concept is to weave in some emotion.
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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.
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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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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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Your wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling.
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There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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The guitar is your first wings. It’s assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.
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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.
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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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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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You are not realistic unless you believe in miracles!
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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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