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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’.

Carlos Santana

When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didnt listen to music for four days – thats a long time for me.
CARLOS SANTANA

Father Listening Music Myself Pass Time
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.
CARLOS SANTANA

Aggressive Angry Anxiety Fear Negative Quality
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.
CARLOS SANTANA

Honesty Love Man Myself Rebel Sound
Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It’s a decision.
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Decision Destination Experience Happiness
All music is important if it comes from the heart.
CARLOS SANTANA

Heart Important Music
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 SANTANA

Concept Fake Musician Myself Play
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 SANTANA

Instrument Music Myself Realization Time
There is no greater reward than working from your heart and making a difference in the world.
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Difference Greatness Reward Work World
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.
CARLOS SANTANA

Food Garden Small Smell Spiritual
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.
CARLOS SANTANA

Existence Home Laughter Life Myself Secret Validate Value
You are not realistic unless you believe in miracles!
CARLOS SANTANA

Believe Miracle Realistic Yourself
Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain… you hear them and they’re affixed to you.
CARLOS SANTANA

Brain Song Tattoo Yourself
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.
CARLOS SANTANA

Cry Honesty Laughter Life Music Myself People Spiritual
First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
CARLOS SANTANA

Black Credit Music People
I have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing.
CARLOS SANTANA

Dimension Feeling Harmony Healing Love Myself Present Wisdom
I think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.
CARLOS SANTANA

Day Music Myself Thinking

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