Your wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling.
CARLOS SANTANAThe most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
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People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
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Blues 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.
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The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
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I am becoming the people I love.
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If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.
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The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
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The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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The guitar is your first wings. It’s assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.
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A lot of people said to me, ‘Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!’
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Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that ‘s why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I’m just roaming around, vagabonding.
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I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It’s not like I’m cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.
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When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didnt listen to music for four days – thats a long time for me.
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The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It’s more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.
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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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Whether you are doing it in the bar, the church, the strip joint, or the Himalayas, the first duty of music is to complement and enhance life.
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