Carlos Santana Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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.”
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“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.”
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“Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.”
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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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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.”
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“There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.”
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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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“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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“The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.”
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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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“I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.”
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“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.”
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“Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can't have it both ways.”
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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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“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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“Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.”
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“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.”
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“One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart”
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“Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“You've got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.”
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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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“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.”
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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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“Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.”
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“KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.”
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“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
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