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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

There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
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Art Interest Money Music
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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Knowledge Master Musician
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Blue Energy Myself Writing
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
Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.
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Ourselves Selfish Survive Virtue
There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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Forget Inspirational Life Rule
Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
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Freedom Goodness Measurement
There is no art without intention.
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Art Creation Creativity Intention One Liner
Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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Beautiful Music Reflection
Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Creation Goodness Taste True
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.
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Famous Fate Kindness Myself Young
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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Meaning Yourself
Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.
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Creation Instinct Past Thinking
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
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
Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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Discipline Value Virtue

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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