“Through meditations and dreams, I received these instructions: 'We want you to hook up with people at junior high schools, high schools, and universities. Your new record is a remarkably collaborative effort.
Santana has survived more than three decades in the fickle music business without losing an iota of his enthusiasm for the 6-string and its great players.
Santana's speech is as distinctive as his playing, and he weaves his colorful tales of music and mysticism with unguarded sincerity.Įven if you don't share all of his beliefs, his ideas will get you thinking about the guitar and its role in our lives. Santana holds passionate views on a variety of subjects, and whether discussing songwriting, tone, and soloing – or such hot-button topics as spirit guides, self-validation, synchronicity, senility, and suicide – he presents his thoughts calmly, without a hint of rock-star posturing.