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A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.

Duke Ellington

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
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
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music
There is no art without intention.
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Art Creation Creativity Intention One Liner
Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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Beautiful Music Reflection
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Blue Energy Myself Writing
It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line
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Beginning Boundary Classical Decision Difficult Lying
Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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Music Sing Song Sweet
New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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Hell Music Time
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
Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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Loud Myself Open
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
Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Creation Goodness Taste True
Every man prays in his own language.
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Himself Language Man Prayer
I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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Limitation Myself Time
There is no art when one does something without intention.
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Art Intention

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