

Quotes By Carlos Santana

Artist
Carlos Santana
Jul 20, 1947 - present
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.
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 have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.
KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask and the mascara.
You've got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
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.
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.
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