Carlos Santana
Carlos Santana
Carlos Santana audio is a Mexican and American musician who first became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered a fusion of rock and Latin American music. The band's sound featured his melodic, blues-based guitar lines set against Latin and African rhythms featuring percussion instruments such as timbales and congas not generally heard in rock music. Santana continued to work in these forms over the following decades. He experienced a resurgence of popularity and...
NationalityMexican
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth20 July 1947
CityAutlan, Mexico
CountryMexico
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.
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!
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.
Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.
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.
The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.
My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.
One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart
Music rearranges your molecular structure.
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.
Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.
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.
The producer had to stop recording and wait for me to compose myself, ... There are quite a few places in my memoir that I don't read again and don't read out loud at appearances. It's interesting. You can write it down and even work with it in writing, but speaking your words out into the world has a different kind of power.