Simplicity is a most complex form.
DUKE ELLINGTONIt 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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Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.
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Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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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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Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
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Every man prays in his own language.
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The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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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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Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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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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On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.
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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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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.
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