Top 100 Quotes About Santana
#1. I met the Santana band when I was 14. By the time I was 15, I was a member of the band.
Neal Schon
#2. 'Masquerade' is the autobiography of Wyclef Jean. A lot of people know me through my work with Carlos Santana or Destiny's Child, winning all those Grammy Awards, but you do not know what is going on inside me.
Wyclef Jean
#3. The story of Rod Stewart, the story of Carlos Santana is so inspiring to young musicians because it shows in this trendy business how long a career can last. It shows how you can soar back, regardless of age.
Clive Davis
#4. Back in the days, the groups and the bands that we listened to were like Earth, Wind and Fire, Santana and Grateful Dead. We don't have a lot of those bands anymore.
Sheila E.
#5. I'm not a very spiritual guy when it comes to music. I remember hearing Carlos Santana say that angels helped him write his songs. And I thought, 'Really, angels?'
Chris Isaak
#6. I'm never gonna be a Carlos Santana - an instrumentalist. I just like songs. It's three minutes of something that can be very powerful.
Steve Forbert
#7. There is no water to put out the fire. Mi canto la esperanza. - Carlos Santana "Maria Maria
Don Winslow
#8. What I learned from people like Carlos Santana is that you cannot get too happy after working for five years in the industry. It takes years and years, and I learned to keep a straight head and keep on working harder and harder.
Wyclef Jean
#9. I got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He'd take me in his car. I'd hear Carlos Santana. I'd hear Queen. I'd hear all these Turkish people, like, bands that he grew up listening to. He was in a band as well.
Action Bronson
#10. Tito Santana is like a cue-ball. The more you strike him, the more english you get out of him.
Bobby Heenan
#11. I got to work with [Carlos] Santana, who's been my idol forever. When I was 18, I got up with him in Australia and jammed with him. That was an amazing moment because I got up in front of my hometown crowd.
Orianthi
#12. Jimmy Carter is the embodiment of dignity, grace, and the hope for a better world - Carlos Santana
Yoko Ono
#13. National coach John McKay has told me that it won't be easy but I want to make up for losing the 2003 Four Nations Tournament final here in the Kelvin Hall by beating this guy Santana.
Steve Simmons
#14. It's a great feeling for me just to put my uniform on and be part of my team.
Johan Santana
#15. I'm having fun and I'm not even trying to do much. Everything is coming together.
Johan Santana
#17. 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.
Carlos Santana
#18. The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
Carlos Santana
#19. 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.
Carlos Santana
#21. 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.
Carlos Santana
#22. I mean, coming into this season I was just hoping to come back, stay healthy and help the team.
Johan Santana
#23. When you hear from other players and they're telling you you're the best pitcher in baseball, that makes you feel really good.
Johan Santana
#24. Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can't have it both ways.
Carlos Santana
#25. 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.
Carlos Santana
#26. love and distance can be compared to fire and air. If the fire is like that of a candle a simple puff of ordinary air will extinguish it: but if the fire is a raging wildfire, then the wind will only fuel it to grow stronger.
Santana Blair
#27. 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.
Carlos Santana
#28. 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.
Carlos Santana
#29. I knew that the Mets had never had a no-hitter. I never had one. This is very special. I knew this means a lot to New York.
Johan Santana
#31. 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.
Carlos Santana
#32. I don't try for strikeouts, but batters just swing and miss. I'd exchange strikeouts for more innings. As a starter, my job is to go deep into the game. When you get strikeouts, you throw a lot of pitches and sometimes you come out early.
Johan Santana
#33. All music is important if it comes from the heart.
Carlos Santana
#34. Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.
Carlos Santana
#35. I know what to do when they give me the ball. I know what to do to give this team a chance to win.
Johan Santana
#36. People get stuck in their stories. My advice is to end your story and begin your life.
Carlos Santana
#37. KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.
Carlos Santana
#38. I didn't want to go on the DL. I want to keep pitching and competing. They decided it's better for me to take some time off and that's what we're going to do.
Johan Santana
#39. I enjoy working out. That is important for me. Whether it's a hike with my dog or an hour at the gym, I like to maintain an active lifestyle.
Cara Santana
#40. People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
Carlos Santana
#41. When you play from the heart,
all of a sudden there's no gravity.
You don't feel the weight of the world,
of bills, of anything.
That's why people love it.
Your so-called insurmountable problems disappear,
and instead of problems you get possibilities.
Carlos Santana
#42. First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
Carlos Santana
#43. 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.
Carlos Santana
#44. I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.
Carlos Santana
#45. There's times when one play makes the whole difference, one calls makes the whole difference. And tonight it was that call.
Johan Santana
#46. Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that ...
Carlos Santana
#47. Failure is inevitable. If you aren't taking risks, then you won't fail.
Cara Santana
#48. 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'
Carlos Santana
#49. You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.
Carlos Santana
#50. Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you're part of the solution.
Carlos Santana
#51. 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.
Carlos Santana
#52. Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.
Carlos Santana
#53. when you go through hell - your own darkest night of the soul - don't take pictures to show to your friends.
Carlos Santana
#54. 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.
Carlos Santana
#55. If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
Carlos Santana
#56. If you stay in your heart you will always be inspired and if you are inspired you will always be enthusiastic. There is nothing more contagious on this planet as enthusiasm.
Carlos Santana
#57. The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
Carlos Santana
#58. Big time players make big time plays in big time games.
Santana Moss
#60. One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart
Carlos Santana
#61. There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
Carlos Santana
#62. I have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing.
Carlos Santana
#63. Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.
Carlos Santana
#64. I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play their hits and that's it. That doesn't appeal to me.
Carlos Santana
#65. If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.
Carlos Santana
#66. What is an ego except something that thinks it's separate from God?
Carlos Santana
#67. In the future, I want to be consistent from Day 1. We're still making adjustments. I still believe that I can be better.
Johan Santana
#68. Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.
Carlos Santana
#69. Dreams can come true, but you have to go for it.
Johan Santana
#70. When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
Carlos Santana
#71. Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
Carlos Santana
#72. 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.
Carlos Santana
#73. 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.
Carlos Santana
#74. There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
Carlos Santana
#75. I'm one of those artists who have the presence and that swag ... I was always built for the music, I don't get on cameras and pop sh*t and base it on a whole lot of hype and talk, I was built off my music ...
Juelz Santana
#76. The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.
Carlos Santana
#77. I don't talk. I just let what I do talk for myself.
Johan Santana
#78. As a kid, I loved to play centerfield. I loved to make diving catches.
Johan Santana
#79. 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!
Carlos Santana
#80. In order for you to win a game, a lot of things have to go right. Your team has to win. Your team has to perform. When you talk about striking out people or ERA, that's personal stuff and where you show people what kind of pitcher you are.
Johan Santana
#81. We're not done. We're just going to continue playing and hoping to put some wins together again.
Johan Santana
#82. When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didnt listen to music for four days - thats a long time for me.
Carlos Santana
#83. 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.
Carlos Santana
#84. There is no greater reward than working from your heart and making a difference in the world.
Carlos Santana
#85. 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.
Carlos Santana
#86. I just wanted to be like my dad, Jesus. He was a good shortstop.
Johan Santana
#87. That no-hitter stuff was a long time ago; I don't think that has anything to do with it. I'm just going through a tough time.
Johan Santana
#88. When you fly to New York, sometimes they put you on hold and you just go round and around in a holding pattern. Sometimes in a concert, I feel other spirits in a holding pattern that they want to land through my heart and through my fingers.
Carlos Santana
#89. 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 usness
Carlos Santana
#90. Page one, sentence one:
"A Sister of Christian rehabilitation was soliciting funds at the bottom of the escalator. Our eyes met and I smiled first; therefore no donation necessary.
Chris Santana
#91. You are not realistic unless you believe in miracles!
Carlos Santana
#92. 'It's much better to understand than to be understood,' from my mom.
Cara Santana
#93. Being able to help, being able to go out there every five games, is definitely something I was waiting for.
Johan Santana
#94. Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.
Carlos Santana
#95. 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.
Carlos Santana
#96. I want to give the people a lot more, and be able to perform more than just my one single and all my old songs ...
Juelz Santana
#97. You've got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
Carlos Santana
#98. I'm not executing my pitches. I'm not commanding my fastball, and I get behind in the count. When I try to throw strikes, I'm getting hurt. That's not the way I pitch.
Johan Santana
#99. 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'.
Carlos Santana
#100. Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears ... wi th one chord
Carlos Santana
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