Carlos Santana Quotes
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.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Everybody has this sack they're carrying. Some are heavier. Some are lighter. But no one doesn't have it. And if you think someone doesn't have it, they have a bigger one than you imagine.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
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When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.
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In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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You have to stay in shape for dance. I don't want to be too skinny, but I don't want to be overweight. I want to be in the middle.
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
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My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.
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The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.
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I think at times I appear to be miserable when I am not... I might be having quite a good thought at that moment, but it seems I look miserable. I am not.
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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.
