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All Quotes by author - Carlos Santana
" 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. "
Man
Love
Honest
" 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. "
Wind
Child
Hear
" Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions. "
Baggage
Illusions
Later
" Every 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. "
Life
My Life
Opportunity
" First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that. "
Need
People
Music
" 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. "
Challenge
History
Moving
" If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment. "
Moving On
Moment
Joy
" 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. "
Day
Every Day
Rest
" I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses. "
Knuckle
Down
Weaknesses
" 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. "
Know
Bank
House
" 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. "
Music
Long Time
Language
" 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. "
Forgiveness
Compassion
Music
" Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life. "
Eyes
Just
Life
" 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. "
Future
Thinking
Living
" Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims. "
People
Bad
Talk
" Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you. "
Just
Brain
Hear
" Stay in your heart. "
Heart
Stay
Your
" The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold. "
Separates
Gold
Like
" The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace. "
You
Open
Heart
" The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero. "
Guitar
Up
People
" 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. "
You
Sometimes
Nothing
" There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same. "
Sunset
Same
Sunrise
" 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. "
Flower
Spiritual
Two
" When you fly to New York, sometimes they put you on hold and you just go round and around in a holding pattern. Sometimes in a concert, I feel other spirits in a holding pattern that they want to land through my heart and through my fingers. "
Heart
New York
Fly
" Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am! "
Love
I Am
Mind
" Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling. "
Show
Always
Smiling
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