“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.”
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The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.
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.
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.
First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
