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There are two kinds of worries – those you can do something about and those you can’t. Don’t spend any time on the latter.

Duke Ellington

A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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Financial Loss Musical Profit
Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.
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Ourselves Selfish Survive Virtue
Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Creation Goodness Taste True
Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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Missing Play
I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.
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Believe Black Kind White Yourself
I’m sure critics have their purpose, and they’re supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what he did.
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Concern Criticism Himself Purpose Thinking
Every man prays in his own language.
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Himself Language Man Prayer
Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Entrance Sound Wings
You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself
Yet, every time God’s children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.
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Children Communication God Honesty Miracle Time
Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It’s not an occupation or profession, it’s a compulsion.
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Live Music Myself Occupation Profession
I like any and all of my associations with music: writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.
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Association Audience Listening Music Perspective Play
Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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Limitation Love
The artist must say it without saying it.
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Artist Language
Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven’t; there’s no proof of it.
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Evidence Love Myself Yourself
Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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Best Chance Ourselves Problem

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