Men had made those masks and other objects for a sacred purpose, a magic purpose, as a kind of mediation between themselves and the unknown hostile forces that surrounded them, in order to overcome their fear and horror by giving it a form and an image. It depressed me so much I wanted to get out fast, but I stayed and studied. When I went for the first time, at Derain’s urging, to the Trocadéro museum, the smell of dampness and rot there stuck in my throat. At that time, for most people a Negro mask was an ethnographic object. When I became interested, forty years ago, in Negro art and I made what they refer to as the Negro Period in my painting, it was because at that time, I was against what was called beauty in the museums. Charles Mingus, Beneath the Underdog: His World As Composed by Mingus He felt he was able to touch people, to contact certain souls in the next room or miles away or even those who had died. 5 on the Billboard charts in the summer of 1983 – was well on its way to double-platinum status, as well.He began to realize he had some sort of mystic powers. By then, The Wild Heart – which went to No. In keeping, 'Stand Back' quickly became a staple of Stevie Nicks' solo concerts it's been part and parcel of Fleetwood Mac's setlists since 1987, as well. That's thanks in part to a groove that Nicks said was inspired by Prince's 'Little Red Corvette,' of course, but it's also powered along by one of her most fearless vocals. 14 hit that explores the billowing emotions surrounding an unrequited love – sound positively pedestrian. 'Stand Back' was so inventive, and so monolithic, that it made all of that witchy-woman mysticism – and even the underrated 'If Anyone Falls,' a No. Well, it is not heaven, and it has a garden. 'No one knows how I feel, what I say,' Nicks sings, 'unless you read between my lines.' That's good advice when sorting through stanzas like this one: 'There is a gate it can be guarded. 'Stand Back' even provides a kind of road map for Stevie Nicks' lyrics, which were becoming ever more oblique and difficult to interpret.

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