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“The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.”
-- Carlos Santana

#Peace #Powerful #Heart
“You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.”
-- Carlos Santana

#Children #Guy #Rock N Roll
“Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.”
-- Carlos Santana

#Inspirational #Real #People
“Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.”
-- Carlos Santana

#Funny #Smile #Wrinkles
“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

#Dance #Spiritual #Jobs
“Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.”
-- Carlos Santana

#Past #Thinking #People
“Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.”
-- Carlos Santana

#Tattoo #Song #Reality
“There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.”
-- Carlos Santana

#Sunset #Sunrise
“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.”
-- Carlos Santana

#Children #Ocean #Wind
“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

#Spiritual #Baby #Flower
“The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.”
-- Carlos Santana

#Devil #Gold #Mud
“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

#Long #Language #Speak
“I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.”
-- Carlos Santana

#Weakness #Knuckles #Demon
“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

#Musician #Jazz #Shows
“Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can't have it both ways.”
-- Carlos Santana

#Grace #Way #Conviction
“The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.”
-- Carlos Santana

#Dream #Hero #Guitar
“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.”
-- Carlos Santana

#Moving #Challenges #Horny
“Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.”
-- Carlos Santana

#Decision #Destination
“I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.”
-- Carlos Santana

#Wall #Kindness #Compassion
“One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart”
-- Carlos Santana

#Country #Heart #One Day
“Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.”
-- Carlos Santana

#People #Excuse #Habit
“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

#Inspirational #Success #New Year
“I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.”
-- Carlos Santana

#Guitar #Long #People
“You've got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.”
-- Carlos Santana

#Baby #Evil #Loving You
“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.”
-- Carlos Santana

#Fighting #Joy #Problem
“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.”
-- Carlos Santana

#Player #Wake Up #Lyrical
“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

#First Love #Men #Buckets
“Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.”
-- Carlos Santana

#Baggage #Illusion #Sooner Or Later
“KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.”
-- Carlos Santana

#Kissing #Vegas #Musician
“A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'”
-- Carlos Santana

#Guitar #Play #People

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