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What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?

Duke Ellington

Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
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Alive Fans Himself Suspect
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
Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
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Herself Mistress Music Play
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
I fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King’s son.
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Finding Himself Man Request
Dancing is very important to people who play music with a beat. I think that people who don’t dance, or who never did dance, don’t really understand the beat. I know musicians who don’t and never did dance, and they have difficulty communicating.
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Communication Dance Important Myself People
I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Limitation Myself Time
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Blue Energy Myself Writing
Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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Music Sing Song Sweet
A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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Financial Loss Musical Profit
I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.
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Appearance Interest Myself Realize Right
Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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Be Yourself Effort Hard Work Inspirational Self Love
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Best Chance Problem Yourself
Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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Loud Myself Open
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.
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Famous Fate Kindness Myself Young
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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Children Communication God Honesty Miracle Time

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