Zitat des Tages von 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.
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.
KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.
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!
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.
Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.
Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.
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.
Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.
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.
There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.
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.
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.
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.
The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
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.
I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
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.
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.
If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'
Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.
