Top 70 Carlos Santana Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “There is no greater reward than working from your heart and making a difference in the world.”

— Carlos Santana

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2. “One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart.”

— Carlos Santana

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3. “Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It’s a decision.”

— Carlos Santana

4. “The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.”

— Carlos Santana

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

— Carlos Santana

6. “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

7. “There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.”

— Carlos Santana

8. “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

9. “There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.”

— Carlos Santana

10. “Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can’t have it both ways.”

— Carlos Santana

11. “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.”

— Carlos Santana

12. “There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.”

— Carlos Santana

13. “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

14. “There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.”

— Carlos Santana

15. “Your wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling.”

— Carlos Santana

16. “All music is important if it comes from the heart.”

— Carlos Santana

17. “I am here to give voice to the invisible.”

— Carlos Santana

18. “People get stuck in their stories. My advice is to end your story and begin your life.”

— Carlos Santana

19. “Music rearranges your molecular structure.”

— Carlos Santana

20. “The guitar is your first wings. It’s assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.”

— Carlos Santana

21. “I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.”

— Carlos Santana

22. “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

23. “I am becoming the people I love.”

— Carlos Santana

24. “When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.”

— Carlos Santana

25. “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

26. “No one’s better than me. I’m not better than anyone. Whether it’s Eric Clapton or BB King we look straight at each other. And that keeps it real.”

— Carlos Santana

27. “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

28. “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

29. “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

30. “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

31. “You are not realistic unless you believe in miracles!”

— Carlos Santana

32. “The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.”

— Carlos Santana

33. “We want to extend an invitation to healing... Turn off the news and turn on the light in your own heart.”

— Carlos Santana

34. “You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.”

— Carlos Santana

35. “People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.”

— Carlos Santana

36. “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

37. “The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.”

— Carlos Santana

38. “Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.”

— Carlos Santana

39. “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

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

— Carlos Santana

41. “I think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.”

— Carlos Santana

42. “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.”

— Carlos Santana

43. “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

44. “What is an ego except something that thinks it’s separate from God?”

— Carlos Santana

45. “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.”

— Carlos Santana

46. “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

47. “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

48. “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

49. “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

50. “I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.”

— Carlos Santana