Carlos Santana
I am here to give voice to the invisible.Collection: Voice
The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.Collection: Cynical
Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.Collection: Inspirational
We are capable of creating miracles ourselves and the greatest miracle is to create a masterpiece of joy out of your life with no excuses. The thing I focus on is going straight to heart. I go to mine first because if I don't feel it, you're not going to feel it. I take a deep breath and remind myself that before I give it to you I have to give it to myself.Collection: Heart
If You're going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in town. And if You're going to play the guitar, really, really, really get in it, and don't be jivin'.Collection: Guitar
The concept is to weave in some emotion.Collection: Emotion
Bring the brothers home, and sisters home now. Legalize marijuana and take all that money and invest it in teachers and in education. You will see a transformation in America.Collection: Teacher
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.Collection: Making Love
There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets.Collection: Peace
My 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.Collection: Morning
...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'Collection: Writing
Whether you are doing it in the bar, the church, the strip joint, or the Himalayas, the first duty of music is to complement and enhance life.Collection: Church
He just seems as cool as ever. I can smell him. Even on the other side, there is smell. Like, when babies are born, there's two smells-one is chicken soup, which is the flesh, and the other is lilacs, which is coming from the spiritual garden. The spirit has a lilac smell.Collection: Spiritual
You've got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.Collection: Baby
Angels cry because they want to experience what you and I feel: the moment. They live in eternity. They dont know what it is like to read a newspaper and get ink on your fingers. They dont know what it is like to take your shoes off and wiggle your toes under the dinner table.Collection: Angel
When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.Collection: Heart
If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.Collection: Inspirational
I don’t eat meat because meat brings out negative qualities such as fear, anger, anxiety, aggressiveness, etc. Vegetables peacefully offer themselves to the earth when ripe, thus allowing a sublime and peaceful thought-conscio usnessCollection: Vegetables
I invite you, wholeheartedly, to read books that remind you of your highest self and emancipate you from mental slavery or false beliefs and illusions. The more you invest in attracting books that resonate with the frequency of your true self, the more light you will bring to the world.Collection: Book
I have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing.Collection: Healing
Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears...wi th one chordCollection: Surrender
There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.Collection: Enthusiasm
You cannot behave appropriately, unless you perceive correctly. Once you perceive you are a beam of Light, that comes from the mind of God, you will carry yourself differently.Collection: Light
The energy of devils and angels is the same energy; it's how you use it. It's fuel. There is a saying: If you scare all your devils away, the angels will go away with them. You know, the halo and the horns are the same thing. I mean it's OK to be spiritually horny - that's what creative genius is all about. Geniuses don't have time to think about how it's going to be received... they don't have time to think whether people like it or not, is it morally right, will God like it?Collection: Mean
All music is important if it comes from the heart.Collection: Music
I would invite all Latin people to do nothing for about two weeks so you can see who really, really is running the economy I am here to give voice to the invisible.Collection: Running
I am becoming the people I love.Collection: People
The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.Collection: Atlanta
Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.Collection: Music
When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didnt listen to music for four days - thats a long time for me.Collection: Father