When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
CARLOS SANTANAWhen you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
CARLOS SANTANAEver 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.
CARLOS SANTANAI have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that’s okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can’t ever rest on your laurels.
CARLOS SANTANAThere is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
CARLOS SANTANAMost people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
CARLOS SANTANAPeople are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
CARLOS SANTANAThe concept is to weave in some emotion.
CARLOS SANTANAThe best part of touring, still, is touching people’s hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.
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 person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
CARLOS SANTANASurrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
CARLOS SANTANAThe Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
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 SANTANASome musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.
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 SANTANASome songs are just like tattoos for your brain… you hear them and they’re affixed to you.
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