157 Quotes by Carlos Santana

You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.

No one’s better than me. I’m not better than anyone. Whether it’s Eric Clapton or BB King we look straight at each other. And that keeps it real.

When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didnt listen to music for four days – thats a long time for me.

There’s a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.

If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that’s what it’s all about.

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.

I have come to the conclusion – and I don’t know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I’m here now – that a lot of people tell me they don’t get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.

I think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.