Carlos Santana Quotes


"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
(Related: Baby, Garden, Lilies, Spiritual)

"I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses."
- Carlos Santana
"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
(Related: Peace, Heart, Open, Possession)

"The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold."
- Carlos Santana
(Related: Devil, Gold)

"Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you."
- Carlos Santana
(Related: Songs)

"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
(Related: Life, Music, People, Dance, Ecstasy, Job, Spiritual)

"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
(Related: People, Future, Living, Past, Present, Thinking)

"Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life."
- Carlos Santana
(Related: Life, Eyes, Feet)

"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
(Related: Life, Bank account, Existence, Worth)

"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
(Related: Music, People, African, Credit, First)

"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
(Related: History, Challenge, Musicians)