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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I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.
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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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A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.
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My original goal in the '90s, after I found feminism and I was the first generation in my family to go to college, was to spread this information that feminism was still very much alive, and that you can't believe the media telling you that it doesn't need to exist and that it doesn't exist.
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I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.
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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.
