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Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.

Duke Ellington

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
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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Cloud Pass Sky
Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
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Freedom Goodness Measurement
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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Dreams Finish Goal
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
Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Complex Form Simplicity
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
Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
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Herself Mistress Music Play
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
Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.
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Creation Instinct Past Thinking
Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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Music Sing Song Sweet
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
There is no art when one does something without intention.
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Art Intention
Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Entrance Sound Wings
Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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Best Chance Ourselves Problem

Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.

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