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.
CARLOS SANTANAIf 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.
CARLOS SANTANASome musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.
CARLOS SANTANAA lot of people said to me, ‘Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!’
CARLOS SANTANAOne day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart.
CARLOS SANTANAThe concept is to weave in some emotion.
CARLOS SANTANAMusic rearranges your molecular structure.
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 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.
CARLOS SANTANABring the brothers home, and sisters home now. Legalize marijuana and take all that money and invest it in teachers and in education. You will see a transformation in America.
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 SANTANAThere’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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 SANTANAThere is no greater reward than working from your heart and making a difference in the world.
CARLOS SANTANAPeople are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
CARLOS SANTANAIf you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.
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