I am becoming the people I love.
CARLOS SANTANAEverybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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All music is important if it comes from the heart.
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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 is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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I’m ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I’m really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.
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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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The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
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You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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