Carlos Santana Quotes

• There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.

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• There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.

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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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• My dad’s a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity – intuition and compassion and tenderness – and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.

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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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• 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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• Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

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• If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.

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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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• First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

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• I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

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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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• 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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• Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.

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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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• The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Your wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling.

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Carlos Santana (41)

Birth:	20th July, 1947
Nationality:	Mexican, American
Profession:	Guitarist, Lyricist

About

Carlos Santana is a Mexican and American musician who first became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered a fusion of rock and Latin American music. The band's sound featured his melodic, blues-based guitar lines set against Latin and African rhythms featuring percussion instruments such as timbales and congas not generally heard in rock music. Santana continued to work in these forms over the following decades.

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