You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
CARLOS SANTANAYou’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
CARLOS SANTANAWhen my father passed away two or three years ago, I didnt listen to music for four days – thats a long time for me.
CARLOS SANTANAThere 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.
CARLOS SANTANAIf 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.
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.
CARLOS SANTANAFirst of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
CARLOS SANTANAI 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.
CARLOS SANTANAThe concept is to weave in some emotion.
CARLOS SANTANAIf you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
CARLOS SANTANAYour wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling.
CARLOS SANTANAThe worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
CARLOS SANTANAOne day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart.
CARLOS SANTANAYou’re always cursing, you’re always praying and you’re always making love. It ain’t do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do.
CARLOS SANTANAThe more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
CARLOS SANTANAThere is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
CARLOS SANTANAMy 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.
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