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“Paint pictures with sound. First, find your white-the deepest, roundest sound you can play on the guitar. Then, find your black-which is the most extreme tonal difference from white you can play. Now, just pick the note where you've got white, pick it where you've got black, and then find all those colors in between. Get those colors down, and you'll be able to express almost any emotion on the guitar.?”

Firsts Play Able Sound Black Differences White Emotion Music Color Picks Down And Notes Paint Guitar Extremes

Author:Les Paul

“Sometimes a musical phrase would perfectly sum up The mood of a moment. One of those lovelorn sonatas For wind instruments was riding past on a solemn white horse. Everybody wondered who the new arrival was.”

Sometimes Moments Past White Music Wind Musician Horse Instruments Musical Mood Phrases Riding Solemn Arrivals White Horse Sonatas New Arrivals Wind Instruments

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.”

Men Love God Sides Black White Music Balance White Man Reggae Jamaica Jamaicans Reggae Music Rasta Jamaican Music

Author:Bob Marley

“If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.”

Ifs Want Play Together Beautiful Black White Music Prejudice Harmony Notes Equality Togetherness Beautiful Music

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.”

People Black Term White Music Music Is Racism Jazz Black People Classical Music Jazz Music Classic Music

Author:Nina Simone

“To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.”

People Mean Play Black White Music Jazz Dirt Classical Music Classic Music Playing Jazz

Author:Nina Simone

“He liked to think that Heaven was what each person wanted it to be. He could see no future in lying around on a fluffy white cloud and listening to somebody playing on a harp, a picture of Heaven he had seen numerous times in one form or another. Even if it was that way, his personal preference would have run more to the fiddle.”

Source: The Good Old Boys and The Smiling Country: Two Classic Westerns