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.
Carlos SantanaRead
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.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote reflects on the struggle men face in balancing traditional masculinity with traits like compassion and sensitivity.
Carlos Santana highlights the challenge many men, particularly within certain cultural contexts, experience in harmonizing their masculine identity with qualities that are often seen as feminine, such as intuition and tenderness. He shares a personal observation of his father's journey towards greater awareness and emotional evolution, suggesting that personal growth often involves breaking free from restrictive gender norms and embracing a fuller, more balanced identity.
Themes
MasculinityFemininityBalanceEmotionGrowthAwareness
In practice
Example use cases
In a discussion about gender roles during a community group meeting.
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All quotes →I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.
Carlos SantanaRead
First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
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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.
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Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.
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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.
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