3 December 2020 Carlos Santana The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It’s more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.
3 December 2020 Carlos Santana 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Carlos Santana 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.
3 December 2020 Carlos Santana 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.
3 December 2020 Carlos Santana I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.
3 December 2020 Carlos Santana First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
