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Duke Ellington

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 don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Limitation Myself Time
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
Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Entrance Sound Wings
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
Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
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Herself Mistress Music Play
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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Knowledge Master Musician
If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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Feeling Music Sound
Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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Discipline Value Virtue
I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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Limitation Myself 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
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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Meaning Yourself
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music
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
What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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Important Meaning Music 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

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