The Beautiful Ones

by Prince

bused to a predominantly white elementary school, that Prince felt racism firsthand. In retrospect, he believed that Minnesota in the era of busing was no more enlightened than segregationist Alabama; he’d sung scathingly about the experience on 1992’s “The Sacrifice of Victor.”

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“Music is healing,” he said. “Write that down first.” This was to be our guiding principle. “Music holds things together.”

one of Prince’s goals for The Beautiful Ones was to demonstrate that an artist is in a constant state of becoming, always imagining himself into the future,

“Try to create,” Prince told me that day in Melbourne. “I want to tell people to create. Just start by creating your day. Then create your life.”

Truly funky singers actually sound like they’re singing in everyday conversation. Look at an interview with some of the greats. U know the names. If U feel like dancing while they’re just talking, that’s funk.

The piano intro 2 “Pack’d My Bags” left me with butterflies. remember trying 2 tell my friends how felt about this music but nobody seemed 2 understand.

It was “Skin Tight” by the Ohio Players & the bass & drums on this record would make Stephen Hawking dance. No disrespect—it’s just that funky. Marcie

Try to create. I want to tell people to create. Just start by creating your day. Then create your life.

“When it comes to your life story, don’t let anyone else hold the pen.”