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A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

Duke Ellington

There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!
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Money Myself Pay Togetherness
I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Limitation Myself Time
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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Dreams Finish Goal
Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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Missing Play
It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line
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Beginning Boundary Classical Decision Difficult Lying
Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brainwaves in his head, and his in mine.
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Bond Friendship Myself Right
Every man prays in his own language.
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Himself Language Man Prayer
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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Cloud Pass Sky
Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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Best Chance Ourselves Problem
Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.
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Creation Instinct Past Thinking
By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.
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Association Kind Man Yourself
I fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King’s son.
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Finding Himself Man Request
There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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Forget Inspirational Life Rule
What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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Important Meaning Music Yourself
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Blue Energy Myself Writing

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