157 Quotes by Carlos Santana

KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn’t need the mask.

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

It takes strength, man, to know when to let go of your kids, really, really let them go and trust them with the one who made them in the first place.

I realized that it’s all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.

You’re always cursing, you’re always praying and you’re always making love. It ain’t do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do.

Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, ‘Oh man, this is the stuff.’ It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.

What is an ego except something that thinks it’s separate from God?

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

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.