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I’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 Santana

I 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 SANTANA

Lyrics Player Simplicity Transcendence Wake Up Yourself
Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.
CARLOS SANTANA

Divine Education Enlightenment Manner Peace Reality
The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
CARLOS SANTANA

Growth Life Worst Yourself
The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
CARLOS SANTANA

Devil Dirt Gold Separate
There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
CARLOS SANTANA

Enthusiasm Feeling Planet
The 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 SANTANA

Best Emotion Heart Myself People Sound Touch
Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
CARLOS SANTANA

Chord Disappear Gravity Note Surrender Yourself
Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.
CARLOS SANTANA

Man Miracle Music Note Time
There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
CARLOS SANTANA

Beautiful Miracle Nature Sunrise
First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
CARLOS SANTANA

Black Credit Music People
Your wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling.
CARLOS SANTANA

Age Appearance Old Wrinkle Yourself
People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
CARLOS SANTANA

Flower Hose Musician People
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 SANTANA

Connection Heart Language Music
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.
CARLOS SANTANA

Honesty Love Man Myself Rebel Sound
I am becoming the people I love.
CARLOS SANTANA

Deep Love Myself People Transformation
When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
CARLOS SANTANA

Appearance Beyond Heart Yourself

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