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Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

Duke Ellington

It’s like an act of murder – you play with intent to commit something.
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Act Commitment Murder Play 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
Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
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Herself Mistress Music Play
Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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Music Sing Song Sweet
Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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Be Yourself Effort Hard Work Inspirational Self Love
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music
My mother told me I was blessed, and I have always taken her word for it. Being born of – or reincarnated from – royalty is nothing Like being blessed. Royalty is inherited from another human being; blessedness comes from God.
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Blessing Human Inheritance Mom Myself Royalty
The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern’ art. What is more African than a Picasso?
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Art Creativity Modern
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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God Language Prayer Understand
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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Beginning Learning People Teaching Understand Word
If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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Feeling Music Sound
New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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Hell Music Time
Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Creation Goodness Taste True
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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Cloud Pass Sky
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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Meaning Yourself
You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it’s bad.
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Bad Category Goodness Listening Stop

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