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 SANTANAIf You’re going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in town. And if You’re going to play the guitar, really, really, really get in it, and don’t be jivin’.
CARLOS SANTANAYour wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling.
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 SANTANASome musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.
CARLOS SANTANAAll music is important if it comes from the heart.
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 SANTANAEverybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
CARLOS SANTANAPeace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.
CARLOS SANTANAI have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing.
CARLOS SANTANAMost people don’t have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
CARLOS SANTANAThere is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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 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 SANTANAI am here to give voice to the invisible.
CARLOS SANTANAPeople are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
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