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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

There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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Forget Inspirational Life Rule
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
I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.
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Believe Black Kind White Yourself
Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Entrance Sound Wings
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
Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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Missing Play
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Blue Energy Myself Writing
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
Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
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Freedom Goodness Measurement
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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Meaning Yourself
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don’t want it.
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Art Dangerous Oneself Yourself
Every man prays in his own language.
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Himself Language Man Prayer
Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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Lazy Limitation Procrastination
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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Dreams Finish Goal
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

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