I am here to give voice to the invisible.
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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Bring the brothers home, and sisters home now. Legalize marijuana and take all that money and invest it in teachers and in education. You will see a transformation in America.
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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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Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It’s a decision.
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The best part of touring, still, is touching people’s hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
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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 music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It’s more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.
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