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Duke Ellington

Yet, every time God’s children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.
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Children Communication God Honesty Miracle Time
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
Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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Music Sing Song Sweet
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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God Language Prayer Understand
Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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Lazy Limitation Procrastination
The artist must say it without saying it.
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Artist Language
I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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Limitation Myself Time
Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brainwaves in his head, and his in mine.
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Bond Friendship Myself Right
There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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Forget Inspirational Life Rule
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
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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Knowledge Master Musician
The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.
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Contribution Expression Music Myself Problem
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 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
New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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Hell Music Time
Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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Loud Myself Open

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