157 Quotes by Carlos Santana

Music rearranges your molecular structure.

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

The producer had to stop recording and wait for me to compose myself, ... There are quite a few places in my memoir that I don't read again and don't read out loud at appearances. It's interesting. You can write it down and even work with it in writing, but speaking your words out into the world has a different kind of power.

When I hit that note - if I hit it correctly - I'm just as important as Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, or anybody. Because when I hit that note, I hit the umbilical cord of anybody who is listening.

Life, at least with us, doesn't need to fall like a military drill. The way we do things, we don't need windows and doors and ceilings. Things just happen when they happen.

Obviously she saw something that was workable to get past all the other stuff, ... I feel very honored and very grateful to be her friend and her partner.

I would have had to have a ghost writer because I don't have that gift, ... She has the gift to sit down with a pen, and, as the reader, you can smell the house, taste the food, feel the lips when you get a kiss. I salute her. I always knew she could do it, and I am glad that she is in it now.

capturing the sound -- to be soulful, sincere, simple, be true to the motives of honoring the music. And that's all I concentrated on.

He (understood) from a child the simplicity of complex music and the complexity of simple music. He has something that I don't have, which is perfect pitch. He knows what key everything is by hearing it once.