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

Duke Ellington

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
I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Limitation Myself Time
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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Knowledge Master Musician
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
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
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
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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Dreams Finish Goal
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
Every man prays in his own language.
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Himself Language Man Prayer
What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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Important Meaning Music Yourself
Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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Lazy Limitation Procrastination
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
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
Everybody in Canada seemed to listen to what they enjoyed, and nobody could tell them what to like, or what was the popular, or what was the In thing. Even today, it is very hard to brainwash a Canadian.
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Country Enjoyment Listening Popular
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
Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
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Alive Fans Himself Suspect

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