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Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.

Duke Ellington

Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Creation Goodness Taste True
If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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Feeling Music Sound
My mother told me I was blessed, and I have always taken her word for it. Being born of – or reincarnated from – royalty is nothing Like being blessed. Royalty is inherited from another human being; blessedness comes from God.
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Blessing Human Inheritance Mom Myself Royalty
New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillacs, and beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.
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Death Hide Place Walk
There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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Forget Inspirational Life Rule
Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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Lazy Limitation Procrastination
Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
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Alive Fans Himself Suspect
Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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Beautiful Music Reflection
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
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
I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Limitation Myself Time
The artist must say it without saying it.
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Artist Language
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
I like any and all of my associations with music: writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.
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Association Audience Listening Music Perspective Play
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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God Language Prayer Understand
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Best Chance Problem Yourself

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