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Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.

Duke Ellington

A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.
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Doll Herself Pretty Woman
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
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
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
People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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People Retirement
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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Cloud Pass Sky
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
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
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
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
I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Limitation Myself Time
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
Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Creation Goodness Taste True
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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God Language Prayer Understand
The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern’ art. What is more African than a Picasso?
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Art Creativity Modern
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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