Carlos Santana Quotes - Page 3

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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.

  Carlos Santana

  Musician, Jazz, Shows

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• Bring the brothers home, and sisters home now. Legalize marijuana and take all that money and invest it in teachers and in education. You will see a transformation in America.

  Carlos Santana

  Teacher, Brother, Home

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• I would invite all Latin people to do nothing for about two weeks so you can see who really, really is running the economy I am here to give voice to the invisible.

  Carlos Santana

  Running, Latin, Two

  "Latino Celebrities Speak Out For Immigration Reform" by Elizabeth Llorente, www.foxnews.com. May 17, 2011.

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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

  Guitar, Play, Towns

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• The concept is to weave in some emotion.

  Carlos Santana

  Emotion, Concepts

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• You're always cursing, you're always praying and you're always making love. It ain't do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do.

  Carlos Santana

  Making Love, Praying, Cursing

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• There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets.

  Carlos Santana

  Peace, War, Flower

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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.

  Carlos Santana

  Moving, Challenges, Horny

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• John Coltrane is still probably one of the greatest musicians of this century. His tone truly puts demons on a leash. His gift is directly from the mind of God and is very powerful. ..... The first time I heard a Love Supreme, it was really an assault. It could've been from mars as far as i was concerned, or another galaxy.
  I remember the album cover and the name, but the music didn't fit into the patterns of my brain at that point. It was like someone trying to tell a monkey about spirituality or computers, you know, it just didn't compute.

  Carlos Santana

  Powerful, Names, Mind

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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.

  Carlos Santana

  Dream, Hero, Guitar

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Carlos Santana

  First Love, Men, Buckets

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• No one's better than me. I'm not better than anyone. Whether it's Eric Clapton or BB King we look straight at each other. And that keeps it real.

  Carlos Santana

  Kings, Real, Eric

  "Carlos Santana: 'My daughter beat me at Guitar Hero'" by Peter Robinson, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2012.

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• My reality is that God speaks to you every day. There's an inner voice, and when you hear it, you get a little tingle in your medulla oblongata at the back of your neck, a little shiver, and at two o'clock in the morning, everything's really quiet and you meditate and you got the candles, you got the incense and you've been chanting, and all of a sudden you hear this voice: Write this down. It is just an inner voice, and you trust it. That voice will never take you to the desert.

  Carlos Santana

  Morning, Writing, Reality

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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

  Guitar, Play, People

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• ...you meditate and you got the candles, you got the incense and you've been chanting, and all of a sudden you hear this voice: 'Write this down'

  Carlos Santana

  Writing, Voice, Incense

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• The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.

  Carlos Santana

  Spiritual, Heart, People

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• Whether you are doing it in the bar, the church, the strip joint, or the Himalayas, the first duty of music is to complement and enhance life.

  Carlos Santana

  Church, Bars, Joints

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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.

  Carlos Santana

  Beautiful, Dad, Men

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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.

  Carlos Santana

  Latin, Reality, People

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• KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.

  Carlos Santana

  Kissing, Vegas, Musician

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Carlos Santana

  Opportunity, Roaming Around, Wake Up

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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.

  Carlos Santana

  Guitar, Long, People

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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.

  Carlos Santana

  Player, Wake Up, Lyrical

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• You've got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.

  Carlos Santana

  Baby, Evil, Loving You

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• I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.

  Carlos Santana

  Mother, Kings, Eye

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