Like books and black lives - albums still matter. Tonight and always.
PrinceRead
Like books and black lives, albums still matter.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of music albums, alongside literature and the value of Black lives in society.
Prince asserts that albums, much like books and the Black experience, hold significant value and should be acknowledged and respected. This statement not only highlights the cultural importance of music as an art form but also connects it to broader social issues, advocating for the recognition of the contributions and experiences of Black individuals in shaping culture and society.
In practice
During a discussion on the significance of cultural contributions in a community event.
Like books and black lives - albums still matter. Tonight and always.
Oh, I love critics. Because they love me. It's not a joke. They care.
Young people have decided they like to listen to music in a certain way, through ear buds, and that's fine with me as long as it doesn't bother them that they're not hearing 90 percent of the music that way.
I used to be more involved with every aspect of everything onstage. I'm way more relaxed now. It feels like anything can happen.
The hardest thing with musicians is getting them not to play.
Most bands out there are basically pretty boring. I try to affect people inside their bodies.
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that you have with the people you photograph.
I want to be as though newborn. To be almost primitive.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.
The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.
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