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There is no art without intention.

Duke Ellington

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.
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Association Kind Man Yourself
Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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Missing Play
Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
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Herself Mistress Music Play
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Blue Energy Myself Writing
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
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original.
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Epitome Music Original Standard
You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it’s bad.
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Bad Category Goodness Listening Stop
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music
A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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Financial Loss Musical Profit
Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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Be Yourself Effort Hard Work Inspirational Self Love
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
There is no art without intention.
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Art Creation Creativity Intention One Liner
Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Complex Form Simplicity
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
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
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

There is no art without intention.

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