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Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.

Duke Ellington

The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern’ art. What is more African than a Picasso?
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Art Creativity Modern
I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Limitation Myself Time
Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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Loud Myself Open
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
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
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
The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.
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Himself Important Known Listening Musician
Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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Discipline Value Virtue
New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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Hell Music Time
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
I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.
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Appearance Interest Myself Realize Right
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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Cloud Pass Sky
Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
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Alive Fans Himself Suspect
Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Entrance Sound Wings
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

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