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Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.

Duke Ellington

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
Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.
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Ourselves Selfish Survive Virtue
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
Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Complex Form Simplicity
There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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Forget Inspirational Life Rule
Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Creation Goodness Taste True
It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line
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Beginning Boundary Classical Decision Difficult Lying
Critics have their purposes, and they’re supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.
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Carry Criticism Focus Purpose Thinking
Every man prays in his own language.
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Himself Language Man Prayer
You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself
Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Entrance Sound Wings
Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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Lazy Limitation Procrastination
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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God Language Prayer Understand
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
Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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Beautiful Music Reflection
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

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