“The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.”
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First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
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.
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
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.