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Everybody in Canada seemed to listen to what they enjoyed, and nobody could tell them what to like, or what was the popular, or what was the In thing. Even today, it is very hard to brainwash a Canadian.

Duke Ellington

If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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Feeling Music Sound
There is no art when one does something without intention.
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Art Intention
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
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
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 don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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Limitation Myself Time
New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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Hell Music Time
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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Knowledge Master Musician
I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.
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Appearance Interest Myself Realize Right
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
I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Limitation Myself Time
Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Complex Form Simplicity
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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Dreams Finish Goal
Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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Limitation Love
The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern’ art. What is more African than a Picasso?
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Art Creativity Modern

Everybody in Canada seemed to listen to what they enjoyed, and nobody could tell them what to like, or what was the popular, or what was the In thing. Even today, it is very hard to brainwash a Canadian.

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Everybody in Canada seemed to listen to what they enjoyed, and nobody could tell them what to like, or what was the popular, or what was the In thing. Even today, it is very hard to brainwash a Canadian.

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