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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.

— Boris Vian

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Smokey Robinson

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

— Miguel

In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?

— Jamie Foxx

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

— Richard M. Nixon

I'd like to see more crossover between white and black music. That's something I've been advocating for years.

— Daryl Hall

There is not enough faith in black music at a high level.

— Estelle

You had your black bands, and you had your white bands, and if you mixed the two, you found less places to play.

— Clarence Clemons

Music is all of a sudden much more colorful.

— Pharrell Williams

English music is white - it evades everything.

— Edward Elgar

✗Opposing Perspectives

If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.

— Dexter Gordon