Carlos Santana People Quotations

Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.

A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.

I am becoming the people I love.

People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

When I work with the youngsters, I try to see them in the way that Wayne Shorter sees me, ... It puts things in order. There is a respect and admiration I feel for people like Wayne or Herbie (Hancock). And there is a respect that people like Kirk (Hammett) feels for me. There is a respect that our children will feel for them also.

Realize that when you get older, you either get senile or become gracious. There's no in-between. You become senile when you think the world short-changed you, or everybody wakes up to screw you. You become gracious when you realize that you have something the world needs, and people are happy to see you when you come into the room.

That's a good question. I say it every day in interviews and when I'm on stage, and people say, how come he doesn't just play and be quiet? You have a Fox network that says celebrities shouldn't have opinions.

It's time for people to realize that we are all mixed up inside. That is why there is so much diversity on my records. I can relate to so many cultures and I want that to be reflected in my music.