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Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.

Duke Ellington

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
If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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Feeling Music Sound
Everybody in Canada seemed to listen to what they enjoyed, and nobody could tell them what to like, or what was the popular, or what was the In thing. Even today, it is very hard to brainwash a Canadian.
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Country Enjoyment Listening Popular
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.
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Kind Time Wasted Worry Yourself
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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Cloud Pass Sky
I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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Limitation Myself Time
The artist must say it without saying it.
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Artist Language
Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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Beautiful Music Reflection
Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
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Herself Mistress Music Play
Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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Best Chance Ourselves Problem
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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Meaning Yourself
New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillacs, and beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.
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Death Hide Place Walk
There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
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Art Interest Money Music
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
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Blue Energy Myself Writing
My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?
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Interest Music Problem Yourself

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