Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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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People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
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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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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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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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There’s a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.
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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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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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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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My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
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Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It’s a decision.
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You’re always cursing, you’re always praying and you’re always making love. It ain’t do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do.
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There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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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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Music rearranges your molecular structure.
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The concept is to weave in some emotion.
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I think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.
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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 nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
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A lot of people said to me, ‘Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!’
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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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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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You cannot behave appropriately, unless you perceive correctly. Once you perceive you are a beam of Light, that comes from the mind of God, you will carry yourself differently.
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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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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
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The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
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