Quotes By 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.

Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.

There is no greater reward than working from your heart and making a difference in the world.

Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you're part of the solution.

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

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.

Music rearranges your molecular structure.

There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.

There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.

The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.

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.

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.

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

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

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

We are capable of creating miracles ourselves and the greatest miracle is to create a masterpiece of joy out of your life with no excuses. The thing I focus on is going straight to heart. I go to mine first because if I don't feel it, you're not going to feel it. I take a deep breath and remind myself that before I give it to you I have to give it to myself.

You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.