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 SANTANAMusic rearranges your molecular structure.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that’s okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can’t ever rest on your laurels.
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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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There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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I think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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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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I’m laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.
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The guitar is your first wings. It’s assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.
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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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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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Music rearranges your molecular structure.
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If You’re going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in town. And if You’re going to play the guitar, really, really, really get in it, and don’t be jivin’.
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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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The concept is to weave in some emotion.
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