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Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.

Duke Ellington

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don’t want it.
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Art Dangerous Oneself Yourself
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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Dreams Finish Goal
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
There are two kinds of worries – those you can do something about and those you can’t. Don’t spend any time on the latter.
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Kind Time Wasted Worry Yourself
Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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Beautiful Music Reflection
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Blue Energy Myself Writing
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
There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it’s successful; if it doesn’t it has failed.
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Failure Kind Music Result Success
I like any and all of my associations with music: writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.
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Association Audience Listening Music Perspective Play
Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Creation Goodness Taste True
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
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music
Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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Limitation Love
Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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Music Sing Song Sweet
Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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Best Chance Ourselves Problem
Every man prays in his own language.
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Himself Language Man Prayer

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