Carlos Santana

“I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.”

“I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.”

“KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.”

“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...”

“When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.”

“Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!”

“The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.”

“The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.”

“Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.”

“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.”

“First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.”

“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...”

“There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.”

“Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.”