49 Famous Quotes By Carlos Santana For A Rhythmic Life
One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart
Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.
Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.
There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.
You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.
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.
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.
If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.
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.
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.
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.
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
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.
Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can't have it both ways.
First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
When you fly to New York, sometimes they put you on hold and you just go round and around in a holding pattern. Sometimes in a concert, I feel other spirits in a holding pattern that they want to land through my heart and through my fingers.
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.
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.
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.
The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.
Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.
People get stuck in their stories. My advice is to end your story and begin your life.
KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.
There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
It takes strength, man, to know when to let go of your kids, really, really let them go and trust them with the one who made them in the first place.
When you go through hell—your own darkest night of the soul—don’t take pictures to show to your friends.
Stay in your heart.
