Carlos Santana Quotes

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
Carlos Santana

Peace, Powerful, Heart

Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
Carlos Santana

Bad, Talk, Excuses

I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.
Carlos Santana

Life, Secret, Worth

Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.
Carlos Santana

Show, Either, Nasty

Most 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 Santana

Future, Past, Thinking

If 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 Santana

History, Moving, Challenge

There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
Carlos Santana

Love, Person, Soul

I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.
Carlos Santana

Music, Kindness, Down

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
Carlos Santana

Heart, Joy, Moment

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

Music, Black, Call

Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.
Carlos Santana

Life, Two, Eyes

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 Santana

Life, Music, Spiritual

Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.
Carlos Santana

Brain, Hear, Songs

There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
Carlos Santana

Sunrise, Same, Sunset

I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.
Carlos Santana

Time, Mother, Same

Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
Carlos Santana

Everybody, Later, Illusions

I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
Carlos Santana

Long, Enough, Why

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
Carlos Santana

Down, Demons, Weaknesses

My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.
Carlos Santana

Men, Dad, Beautiful

Stay in your heart.
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

Music, Hero, Guitar

When 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 Santana

Spiritual, Two, Flower

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

Love, Mind, Attract

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

Enough, Play, Guitar

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

Love, Said, Honest

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Biography

Nationality: Mexican

Born: July 20, 1947

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