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I fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King’s son.

Duke Ellington

What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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Important Meaning Music Yourself
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Blue Energy Myself Writing
The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.
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Contribution Expression Music Myself Problem
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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Cloud Pass Sky
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
My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?
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Interest Music Problem Yourself
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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Meaning Yourself
There are two kinds of worries – those you can do something about and those you can’t. Don’t spend any time on the latter.
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Kind Time Wasted Worry Yourself
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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Dreams Finish Goal
You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Best Chance Problem Yourself
Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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Best Chance Ourselves Problem
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
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
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

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