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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!

Duke Ellington

Every man prays in his own language.
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Himself Language Man Prayer
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
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
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music
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
There is no art when one does something without intention.
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Art Intention
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
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Best Chance Problem Yourself
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
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
Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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Music Sing Song Sweet
Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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Loud Myself Open
A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.
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Doll Herself Pretty Woman
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
The artist must say it without saying it.
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Artist Language
What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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Important Meaning Music Yourself

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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