Quotes By Carlos Santana

The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.

If you stay in your heart you will always be inspired and if you are inspired you will always be enthusiastic.

Angels cry because they want to experience what you and I feel: the moment. They live in eternity. They dont know what it is like to read a newspaper and get ink on your fingers. They dont know what it is like to take your shoes off and wiggle your toes under the dinner table.

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.

Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.

Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can't have it both ways.

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.

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.

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