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Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.

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
Critics have their purposes, 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 they did.
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Carry Criticism Focus Purpose Thinking
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music
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’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself
Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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Missing Play
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
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
The artist must say it without saying it.
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Artist Language
Every man prays in his own language.
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Himself Language Man Prayer
New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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Hell Music Time
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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Meaning Yourself
Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Complex Form Simplicity
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
What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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Important Meaning Music Yourself
I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Limitation Myself Time

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