Carlos Santana Quotes

• "Angels cry because they want to experience what you and I feel: the moment. They live in eternity. They don't know what it is like to read a newspaper and get ink on your fingers. They don't know what it is like to take your shoes off and wiggle your toes under the dinner table."
• "Every musician who participated was on the same wavelength and artistic energy as I was... Supernatural is a beautiful example of synchronicity... making it was a truly glorious experience."
• "First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that."
• "I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses."
• "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."
• "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."
• "If you can please people's hearts in Africa and Japan, then you're part of the world's family... not a tourist."
• "Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life."
• "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."
• "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."
• "Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you."
• "The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold."
• "The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace."
• "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."
• "When I hit that note - if I hit it correctly - I'm just as important as Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, or anybody. Because when I hit that note, I hit the umbilical cord of anybody who is listening."
• "When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didn't listen to music for four days - that's a long time for me."
• "Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling."
• "First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that."