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

Duke Ellington

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
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Best Chance Problem Yourself
If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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Feeling Music Sound
New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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Hell Music Time
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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Meaning Yourself
You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself
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
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
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
Every man prays in his own language.
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Himself Language Man Prayer
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
There is no art when one does something without intention.
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Art Intention
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
I’m sure critics have their purpose, and they’re supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what he did.
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Concern Criticism Himself Purpose Thinking
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

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