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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. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#between #bring #compassion #correct #cuba

My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#beautiful #become #compassion #conscious #dad

The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#being #dreaming #guitar #hendrix #hero

I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#background #been #being #blues #comes

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

#any #clearly #english #goes #i

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

#because #connect #english #everything #faster

When you fly to New York, sometimes they put you on hold and you just go round and around in a holding pattern. Sometimes in a concert, I feel other spirits in a holding pattern that they want to land through my heart and through my fingers. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#concert #feel #fingers #fly #go

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

#buddy #children #create #crystallize #curtis

We're not done. We're just going to continue playing and hoping to put some wins together again. ↗

— Johan Santana

#continue #done #going #hoping #just

That no-hitter stuff was a long time ago; I don't think that has anything to do with it. I'm just going through a tough time. ↗

— Johan Santana

#anything #going #i #just #long