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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

I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Limitation Myself Time
Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It’s not an occupation or profession, it’s a compulsion.
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Live Music Myself Occupation Profession
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
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
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
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
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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God Language Prayer Understand
Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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Missing Play
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
Every man prays in his own language.
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Himself Language Man Prayer
A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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Financial Loss Musical Profit
Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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Beautiful Music Reflection
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music
New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillacs, and beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.
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Death Hide Place Walk
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
The artist must say it without saying it.
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Artist Language

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