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It’s like an act of murder – you play with intent to commit something.

Duke Ellington

Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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Loud Myself Open
Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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Missing Play
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Best Chance Problem Yourself
Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Creation Goodness Taste True
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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Cloud Pass Sky
I’m sure critics have their purpose, and they’re supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what he did.
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Concern Criticism Himself Purpose Thinking
There is no art without intention.
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Art Creation Creativity Intention One Liner
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
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
Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Entrance Sound Wings
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
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
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
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
There is no art when one does something without intention.
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Art Intention
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

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