The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete. Carlos Santana More Quotes by Carlos Santana More Quotes From Carlos Santana 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 who-i-ammindneeds 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. Carlos Santana writingmorningreality 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 spiritualheartpeople All music is important if it comes from the heart. Carlos Santana musicimportantheart The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero. Carlos Santana guitarherodream 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 guitarlongpeople 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 jointsbarschurch 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 eyekingsmother 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 flowerspiritualbaby If You're going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in town. And if You're going to play the guitar, really, really, really get in it, and don't be jivin'. Carlos Santana guitartownsplay 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. Carlos Santana gardenspiritualbaby 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 dimensionshealingtrying You've got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you. Carlos Santana loving-youevilbaby There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm. Carlos Santana contagiousplanetsenthusiasm 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 latinrealitypeople 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 new-yearsuccessinspirational 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 jazzmusicianshows 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 latinrunningtwo I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses. Carlos Santana knucklesdemonweakness Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions. Carlos Santana illusionsooner-or-laterbaggage
