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

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

Explore more quotes by 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 what it's all about."

History, Challenge, Musicians

"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."

Life, Bank account, Existence, Worth

"Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life."

Life, Eyes, Feet

"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."

People, Future, Living, Past

"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."

Life, Music, People, Dance

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

Peace, Heart, Open, Possession

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

Music, People, African, Credit

"The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold."

Devil, Gold

"When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden."

Baby, Garden, Lilies, Spiritual

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

Music, Songs

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"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Music, Loneliness, Space

"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Music, Life, Imagination, Soul

"I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

Music, Talent, Words

"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Music, Soul, Universe

"Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God."

Martin Luther, German Leader

Music, Art, God

"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

Music, Race, Voice

"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Music, Fear, Danger

"Music fills the infinite between two souls."

Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet

Music, Infinite

"I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American Athlete

Music, Jazz

"Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

Music, Heaven