The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
CARLOS SANTANAThere’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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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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When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
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There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets.
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You are not realistic unless you believe in miracles!
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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 music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It’s more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.
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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 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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There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
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Ever since I was a child I’ve always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there’s always a melody in there.
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You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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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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The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
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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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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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