My 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.
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.
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 SANTANAI have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing.
CARLOS SANTANAYour wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling.
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 SANTANASome musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.
CARLOS SANTANAYou cannot behave appropriately, unless you perceive correctly. Once you perceive you are a beam of Light, that comes from the mind of God, you will carry yourself differently.
CARLOS SANTANAIf you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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 SANTANAYour mind is a magnet. You don’t attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
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 SANTANABlues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, ‘Oh man, this is the stuff.’ It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.
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 SANTANASome songs are just like tattoos for your brain… you hear them and they’re affixed to you.
CARLOS SANTANAThe concept is to weave in some emotion.
CARLOS SANTANAI knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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