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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

The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.
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Himself Important Known Listening Musician
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
Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
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Freedom Goodness Measurement
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
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
People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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People Retirement
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
There is no art without intention.
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Art Creation Creativity Intention One Liner
Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Complex Form Simplicity
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
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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Knowledge Master Musician
By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.
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Association Kind Man Yourself
I fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King’s son.
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Finding Himself Man Request
I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Limitation Myself Time
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Best Chance Problem Yourself

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