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It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.

— Lee Konitz

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The music is first and foremost everything - no egos, no attitude, nothing - it's about the music.

— Big Boi

When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.

— Sade Adu

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

— Bonnie Raitt

I came up during that time when music, to me, was really music. It wasn't about talking about a woman and calling them a derogatory name or something like that. It was real music.

— Michael Clarke Duncan

In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music.

— David Baker

You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all.

— Les Baxter

A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I think the music came out of it. The music wouldn't have happened without the social changes.

— Steve Winwood

Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options.

— Isaac Brock

✗Opposing Perspectives

Music was such an important part of everyone's life in the '60s and '70s, but everywhere you played, the music was dreadful.

— Peter Hook

There was certainly, like, a rebellious, like, youthful rage in me. And there was also the fact of no getting away from fact that I am white, and you know, this is predominantly black music, you know.

— Eminem