Carlos Santana quotes on smell

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

Carlos Santana quotes on present

I have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing. -Carlos Santana

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

Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears…wi th one chord -Carlos Santana

I am here to give voice to the invisible. -Carlos Santana

Carlos Santana quotes on people

The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves. -Carlos Santana

If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need. -Carlos Santana

I am becoming the people I love. -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

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

People get stuck in their stories. My advice is to end your story and begin your life. -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

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

People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose. -Carlos Santana

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

I would invite all Latin people to do nothing for about two weeks so you can see who really, really is running the economy I am here to give voice to the invisible. -Carlos Santana

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

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

Jimmy Carter is the embodiment of dignity, grace, and the hope for a better world-Carlos Santana” -Yoko Ono

There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light. -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

Carlos Santana quotes on love

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

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

You’re always cursing, you’re always praying and you’re always making love. It ain’t do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do. -Carlos Santana

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

The concept is to weave in some emotion. -Carlos Santana

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. -Carlos Santana

It takes strength, man, to know when to let go of your kids, really, really let them go and trust them with the one who made them in the first place. -Carlos Santana

Carlos Santana quotes on life

The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete. -Carlos Santana

Carlos Santana (The Universal Tone: My Life) –

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

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

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. -Carlos Santana

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. -Carlos Santana

There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm. -Carlos Santana

Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It’s a decision. -Carlos Santana

When you go through hell-your own darkest night of the soul-don’t take pictures to show to your friends. -Carlos Santana

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. -Carlos Santana

Carlos Santana quotes on music

I think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day. -Carlos Santana

Carlos Santana quotes on heart

Stay in your heart. -Carlos Santana

If you stay in your heart you will always be inspired and if you are inspired you will always be enthusiastic. There is nothing more contagious on this planet as enthusiasm. -Carlos Santana

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

When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances. -Carlos Santana

More from Carlos santana

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

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

The guitar is your first wings. It’s assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination. -Carlos Santana

There is no water to put out the fire. Mi canto la esperanza.-Carlos Santana “Maria Maria” -Don Winslow

KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn’t need the mask. -Carlos Santana

Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you’re part of the solution. -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

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 knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses. -Carlos Santana You are not realistic unless you believe in miracles! -Carlos Santana

What is an ego except something that thinks it’s separate from God? -Carlos Santana

The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold. -Carlos Santana