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.
CARLOS SANTANAEvery 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.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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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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Your wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling.
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All music is important if it comes from the heart.
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I know I’m not the kind of person who’s gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock ‘n’ roll artists. They just play their hits and that’s it. That doesn’t appeal to me.
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There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
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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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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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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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The concept is to weave in some emotion.
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I don’t eat meat because meat brings out negative qualities such as fear, anger, anxiety, aggressiveness, etc. Vegetables peacefully offer themselves to the earth when ripe, thus allowing a sublime and peaceful thought-consciousness.
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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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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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There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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