List of Carlos Santana Quotes

When You Fly To New York, Sometimes They Put You On Hold And You Just Go Round And Around In A Holding Pattern. Sometimes In A Concert, I Feel Other Spirits In A Holding Pattern That They Want To Land Through My Heart And Through My Fingers.

When My Father Passed Away Two Or Three Years Ago, I Didnt Listen To Music For Four Days - Thats A Long Time For Me.

Kiss Is Las Vegas Entertainment. A Musician Doesn't Need The Mask.

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.

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.

John Coltrane Is Still Probably One Of The Greatest Musicians Of This Century. His Tone Truly Puts Demons On A Leash. His Gift Is Directly From The Mind Of God And Is Very Powerful. ..... The First Time I Heard A Love Supreme, It Was Really An Assault. It Could've Been From Mars As Far As I Was Concerned, Or Another Galaxy. I Remember The Album Cover And The Name, But The Music Didn't Fit Into The Patterns Of My Brain At That Point. It Was Like Someone Trying To Tell A Monkey About Spirituality Or Computers, You Know, It Just Didn't Compute.

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.

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.

The People Of Arizona, The People Of Atlanta, Georgia, You Should Be Ashamed Of Yourselves.

Some Musicians, Man, You Hear The Note Almost Before They Hit It. Jimi, Coltrane And Charlie Parker Were Like That.

I Knuckle Down With My Demons, And With My Weaknesses.

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.

Angels Cry Because They Want To Experience What You And I Feel: The Moment. They Live In Eternity. They Dont Know What It Is Like To Read A Newspaper And Get Ink On Your Fingers. They Dont Know What It Is Like To Take Your Shoes Off And Wiggle Your Toes Under The Dinner Table.

A Lot Of People Said To Me, 'enough With The Guest Vocalists For A While. We Want To Hear The Mexican Play The Guitar!'

You've Got To Change Your Evil Ways, Baby, Before I Start Loving You.

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.

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.

My Reality Is That God Speaks To You Every Day. There's An Inner Voice, And When You Hear It, You Get A Little Tingle In Your Medulla Oblongata At The Back Of Your Neck, A Little Shiver, And At Two O'clock In The Morning, Everything's Really Quiet And You Meditate And You Got The Candles, You Got The Incense And You've Been Chanting, And All Of A Sudden You Hear This Voice: Write This Down. It Is Just An Inner Voice, And You Trust It. That Voice Will Never Take You To The Desert.

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.

I Am Becoming The People I Love.

First Of All, The Music That People Call Latin Or Spanish Is Really African. So Black People Need To Get The Credit For That.

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.

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.

He Just Seems As Cool As Ever. I Can Smell Him. Even On The Other Side, There Is Smell. Like, When Babies Are Born, There's Two Smells-one Is Chicken Soup, Which Is The Flesh, And The Other Is Lilacs, Which Is Coming From The Spiritual Garden. The Spirit Has A Lilac Smell.