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.
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.
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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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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I think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.
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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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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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I am becoming the people I love.
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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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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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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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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 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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There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
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The concept is to weave in some emotion.
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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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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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