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

Duke Ellington

There is no art when one does something without intention.
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Art Intention
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
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
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
Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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Missing Play
Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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Discipline Value Virtue
If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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Feeling Music Sound
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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Cloud Pass Sky
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Best Chance Problem Yourself
People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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People Retirement
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
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
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
I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.
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Believe Black Kind White Yourself
Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Entrance Sound Wings
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

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