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

Duke Ellington

Dancing is very important to people who play music with a beat. I think that people who don’t dance, or who never did dance, don’t really understand the beat. I know musicians who don’t and never did dance, and they have difficulty communicating.
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Communication Dance Important Myself People
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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Dreams Finish Goal
Every man prays in his own language.
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Himself Language Man Prayer
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
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
Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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Lazy Limitation Procrastination
There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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Forget Inspirational Life Rule
I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Limitation Myself Time
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
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
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
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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Cloud Pass Sky
A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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Financial Loss Musical Profit
New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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Hell Music Time
Of the One O’Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: “I wish it were mine”.
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Hear Myself Performance

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