Song Quotes by Carlos Santana

Music rearranges your molecular structure.

— Carlos Santana

All music is important if it comes from the heart.

— Carlos Santana

Whether you are doing it in the bar, the church, the strip joint, or the Himalayas, the first duty of music is…

— Carlos Santana

Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean…

— Carlos Santana

Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now.…

— Carlos Santana

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

— Carlos Santana

If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's…

— Carlos Santana

The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.

— Carlos Santana

Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.

— Carlos Santana

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

— Carlos Santana

Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded…

— Carlos Santana

You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children…

— Carlos Santana

There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or…

— Carlos Santana

I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of…

— Carlos Santana

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language.…

— Carlos Santana

I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not…

— Carlos Santana

John Coltrane is still probably one of the greatest musicians of this century. His tone truly puts demons on a leash. His…

— Carlos Santana