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Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don’t want it.

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
My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?
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Interest Music 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
Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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Discipline Value Virtue
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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Meaning Yourself
Of the One O’Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: “I wish it were mine”.
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Hear Myself Performance
The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.
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Contribution Expression Music Myself Problem
I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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Limitation Myself Time
Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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Music Sing Song Sweet
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 are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music
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’m sure critics have their purpose, 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 he did.
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Concern Criticism Himself Purpose Thinking
Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
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Herself Mistress Music Play
Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Entrance Sound Wings
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

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