The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
CARLOS SANTANAThere’s a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
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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.
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Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.
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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’
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The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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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.
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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.
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There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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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.
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When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
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I have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing.
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Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain… you hear them and they’re affixed to you.
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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.
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