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There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.

Duke Ellington

I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Limitation Myself Time
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
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
There is no art when one does something without intention.
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Art Intention
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
There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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Forget Inspirational Life Rule
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
It’s like an act of murder – you play with intent to commit something.
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Act Commitment Murder Play Yourself
A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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Financial Loss Musical Profit
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
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
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
If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!
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Greatness Mediocre Musician Yourself
I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
DUKE ELLINGTON

Limitation Myself Time

There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.

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