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Carlos Santana
Mexican
Musician
Born:
Jul 20
,
1947
Heart
Me
Music
People
You
Your
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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
Carlos Santana
You
Heart
Joy
Carry
Heal
Any
Your
Moment
Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
Carlos Santana
People
Bad
Willingness
Bad Habits
Habits
Like
Excuses
Most
Talk
Lot
Break
Victims
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
Carlos Santana
You
Peace
Heart
Valuable
Own
Possession
Weapon
Open
Powerful
Powerful Weapon
Most
Instrument
Most Powerful
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.
Carlos Santana
Future
People
Past
Living
Thinking
Everything
About
Only
Most
Prisoners
Begins
Where
In The Past
Present
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
Music
People
Black
First
Latin
First Of All
Call
Get
African
Spanish
Really
Credit
Need
Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.
Carlos Santana
Life
Eyes
Part
Feet
Duality
Just
Two
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.
Carlos Santana
You
Heart
Sometimes
Language
Nothing
Faster
Everything
Once
Way
Immediately
Melody
Find
Because
Than
Gets
Any
Spanish
Then
English
Connect
Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
Carlos Santana
Drop
Everybody
Later
Baggage
Sooner
Sooner Or Later
Luggage
Illusions
Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.
Carlos Santana
You
Wrinkles
Smiling
Always
Nasty
Senile
Cranky
Either
Your
Show
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!
Carlos Santana
Love
You
Mind
Magnet
Attract
Am
Want
Your
Who
Need
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.
Carlos Santana
Music
Time
Language
Pure
Long
Long Time
Other
Melody
More
Outside
Long Time Ago
Clearly
Instrumental
Lot
Yiddish
Than
Goes
Any
Realised
Spanish
Speaks
English
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.
Carlos Santana
Life
Music
Spiritual
People
Dance
Job
Honestly
Laugh
Give
Spiritually
Through
Ecstasy
Cry
Concerts
Did
Decently
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.
Carlos Santana
Wind
Ocean
Melodies
Melody
Since
Attracted
Beck
Always
Hear
Been
Very
Child
Whether
Choir
Jeff
Jeff Beck
Ever
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.
Carlos Santana
Life
Worth
Validated
Secret
Laughing
Physical
More
Physical Thing
Know
House
Because
Am
Existence
Account
Than
Any
Bank
Bank Account
The Secret Of
Thing
The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
Carlos Santana
Depression
Better
Will
Give
More
Affected
Patients
Them
Choices
Serve
There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
Carlos Santana
Love
Soul
Heal
Person
Cannot
Save
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.
Carlos Santana
Spiritual
You
Garden
Smell
Flower
Baby
Like
Smells
Lilies
Another
Soup
Chicken
Which
Flesh
Things
Two
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
Me
Better
King
Other
Clapton
Look
Real
Eric
Eric Clapton
Than
Anyone
Whether
Straight
Each
Keeps
The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
Carlos Santana
Devil
Like
Gold
Mud
Separates
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.
Carlos Santana
Me
Wind
Kind
Like
Know
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
Up
Walking
Person
Hits
Roll
Just
Artists
Gonna
Appeal
Many
Play
Stay in your heart.
Carlos Santana
Heart
Stay
Your
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
Day
You
Every Day
Wake Up
Rest
Every
Lyrical
Background
Okay
Laurels
Simplistic
Been
Wake
Up
Very
Accused
Just
Transcend
Being
Blues
Which
Your
Ever
Player
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
Time
Mother
King
Everybody
Eye
Martin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
Marvin Gaye
Davis
Chavez
Coltrane
Mother Teresa
Malcolm
Malcolm X
Left
Up
Same
Same Time
Sixties
Grew
Miles
Miles Davis
Watching
Luther
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.
Carlos Santana
Grateful
Nothing
Possibility
Out
Something
Ready
Lady
Lady Gaga
Gaga
Really
Realm
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
Me
People
Guitar
Long
Enough
Took
Melody
Tell
Would
Would-Be
Nevertheless
Come
Know
Singer
Conclusion
Lot
Get
Where
Decided
Now
Why
Here
Album
Playing
Albums
KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.
Carlos Santana
Entertainment
Kiss
Mask
Musician
Vegas
Las Vegas
Need
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