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Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.

Duke Ellington

If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!
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Greatness Mediocre Musician Yourself
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
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 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
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
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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Dreams Finish Goal
Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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Best Chance Ourselves Problem
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.
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Famous Fate Kindness Myself Young
Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Entrance Sound Wings
There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
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Art Interest Money Music
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
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music
Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
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Freedom Goodness Measurement
On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.
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Beginning Learning People Teaching Understand Word
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
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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Country Enjoyment Listening Popular

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.

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