I have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing.
Carlos SantanaYour wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.
Carlos SantanaFirst of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
Carlos SantanaThe worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
Carlos SantanaMy reality is that God speaks to you every day. There's an inner voice, and when you hear it, you get a little tingle in your medulla oblongata at the back of your neck, a little shiver, and at two o'clock in the morning, everything's really quiet and you meditate and you got the candles, you got the incense and you've been chanting, and all of a sudden you hear this voice: Write this down. It is just an inner voice, and you trust it. That voice will never take you to the desert.
Carlos Santana