If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.
You had your black bands, and you had your white bands, and if you mixed the two, you found less places to play.
That's because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that everyone could enjoy and listen to.
You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart.
Music is the silence between the notes.
How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion.
I'd like to see more crossover between white and black music. That's something I've been advocating for years.
I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.
The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.