There’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.
CARLOS SANTANAI 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.
More Carlos Santana Quotes
-
-
A lot of people said to me, ‘Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!’
CARLOS SANTANA -
I think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.
CARLOS SANTANA -
Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.
CARLOS SANTANA -
There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
CARLOS SANTANA -
Your 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 SANTANA -
Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can’t have it both ways.
CARLOS SANTANA -
I 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 SANTANA -
I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
CARLOS SANTANA -
Bring the brothers home, and sisters home now. Legalize marijuana and take all that money and invest it in teachers and in education. You will see a transformation in America.
CARLOS SANTANA -
The concept is to weave in some emotion.
CARLOS SANTANA -
Music rearranges your molecular structure.
CARLOS SANTANA -
The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
CARLOS SANTANA -
The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
CARLOS SANTANA -
When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didnt listen to music for four days – thats a long time for me.
CARLOS SANTANA -
The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It’s more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.
CARLOS SANTANA