I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It’s not like I’m cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.
CARLOS SANTANAI can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It’s not like I’m cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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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.
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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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Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
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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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Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.
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All music is important if it comes from the heart.
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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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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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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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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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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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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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