Problems are chances for us to do our best.
DUKE ELLINGTONTomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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There is no art when one does something without intention.
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Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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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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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern’ art. What is more African than a Picasso?
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Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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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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Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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It’s like an act of murder – you play with intent to commit something.
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Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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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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If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!
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You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it’s bad.
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