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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

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
Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
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Herself Mistress Music Play
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
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 musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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Financial Loss Musical Profit
There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!
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Money Myself Pay Togetherness
If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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Feeling Music Sound
There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it’s successful; if it doesn’t it has failed.
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Failure Kind Music Result Success
Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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Beautiful Music Reflection
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
What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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Important Meaning Music Yourself
A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.
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Doll Herself Pretty Woman
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
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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Meaning Yourself
Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Complex Form Simplicity

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