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 SANTANAThere’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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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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Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
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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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Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.
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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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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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I would invite all Latin people to do nothing for about two weeks so you can see who really, really is running the economy I am here to give voice to the invisible.
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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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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 you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
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I have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing.
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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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