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Carlos Santana [1947-0] Mexican

Rank: 101
Musician

Carlos Santana audio 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.

Music, Dad, Forgiveness, Future, History, Love, Moving On, Peace

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There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.		101
Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.		102
If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.	Moving On	103
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.	Peace	104
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.		105
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.		106
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.		107
There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.	Love	108
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.		109
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.	History	110
Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.		111
Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.		112
A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'		113
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.		114
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!		115
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.		116
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, Music	117
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	118
Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.		119
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.		120
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	121
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.	Dad	122
The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.		123
The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.		124
First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.		125
I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.		126
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.		201
Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.		202
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.		203
The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.		204
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.		205
I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.		206
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.		207
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.		208
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.		209
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.		210
I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play their hits and that's it. That doesn't appeal to me.		211
Stay in your heart.		212
KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.		213
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.		214

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