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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You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along.
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Composing is improvisation slowed down.
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The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations.
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When you're moving in the positive, your destination is the brightest star.
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The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
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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.
