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Duke Ellington

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
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.
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Famous Fate Kindness Myself Young
Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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Loud Myself Open
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
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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Cloud Pass Sky
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
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
Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
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Herself Mistress Music Play
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
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Blue Energy Myself Writing
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
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
Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
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Freedom Goodness Measurement
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original.
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Epitome Music Original Standard
I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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Limitation Myself Time
Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Complex Form Simplicity

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