The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
CARLOS SANTANAI know I’m not the kind of person who’s gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock ‘n’ roll artists. They just play their hits and that’s it. That doesn’t appeal to me.
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When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
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I know I’m not the kind of person who’s gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock ‘n’ roll artists. They just play their hits and that’s it. That doesn’t appeal to me.
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The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
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Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It’s a decision.
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Music rearranges your molecular structure.
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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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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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I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.
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You are not realistic unless you believe in miracles!
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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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There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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All music is important if it comes from the heart.
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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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I have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing.
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First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
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