Explore Quotes by Carlos Santana

The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.

The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.

A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.

Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

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.

I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.

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!

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 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.

Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.

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.

Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.

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.

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.

There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.

One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.