Carlos Santana Quotes

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.

Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.

One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart

Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.

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.

Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you're part of the solution.

Music rearranges your molecular structure.

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.

Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can't have it both ways.

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

If you stay in your heart you will always be inspired and if you are inspired you will always be enthusiastic. There is nothing more contagious on this planet as enthusiasm.

There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.

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.

First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

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.

I think of music as a menu. I can't eat the same thing every day.

There is no greater reward than working from your heart and making a difference in the world.

Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.

Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.

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.

The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.

The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.

You are not realistic unless you believe in miracles!

...you meditate and you got the candles, you got the incense and you've been chanting, and all of a sudden you hear this voice: 'Write this down'

You cannot behave appropriately, unless you perceive correctly. Once you perceive you are a beam of Light, that comes from the mind of God, you will carry yourself differently.

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!

When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.

Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears...wi th one chord

There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.

You've got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.

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.

People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.

I am here to give voice to the invisible.

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.

The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.

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.

All music is important if it comes from the heart.

Whether you are doing it in the bar, the church, the strip joint, or the Himalayas, the first duty of music is to complement and enhance life.

If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.

There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets.

I would invite all Latin people to do nothing for about two weeks so you can see who really, really is running the economy I am here to give voice to the invisible.

There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.

Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

If You're going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in town. And if You're going to play the guitar, really, really, really get in it, and don't be jivin'.

You're always cursing, you're always praying and you're always making love. It ain't do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do.