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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.

Duke Ellington

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
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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God Language Prayer Understand
If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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Feeling Music Sound
Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Complex Form Simplicity
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
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
My mother told me I was blessed, and I have always taken her word for it. Being born of – or reincarnated from – royalty is nothing Like being blessed. Royalty is inherited from another human being; blessedness comes from God.
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Blessing Human Inheritance Mom Myself Royalty
Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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Best Chance Ourselves Problem
A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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Financial Loss Musical Profit
There is no art when one does something without intention.
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Art Intention
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
What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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Important Meaning Music Yourself
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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Meaning Yourself
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
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
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

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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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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