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
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
If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, thats what its all about. – Carlos Santana
The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. Its more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero. – Carlos Santana
When people in stadiums do the Wave, its the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going. – Jerry Saltz