If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.
CARLOS SANTANAIf you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.
CARLOS SANTANAThe concept is to weave in some emotion.
CARLOS SANTANAEverything 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.
CARLOS SANTANAThe guitar is your first wings. It’s assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.
CARLOS SANTANAThe 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.
CARLOS SANTANAI 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.
CARLOS SANTANAYou 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’
CARLOS SANTANANo 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.
CARLOS SANTANAI don’t eat meat because meat brings out negative qualities such as fear, anger, anxiety, aggressiveness, etc. Vegetables peacefully offer themselves to the earth when ripe, thus allowing a sublime and peaceful thought-consciousness.
CARLOS SANTANAWhether 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.
CARLOS SANTANAThe worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
CARLOS SANTANAI’m ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I’m really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.
CARLOS SANTANAYou’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
CARLOS SANTANAThere is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
CARLOS SANTANAI’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.
CARLOS SANTANAWhen 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.
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