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

Duke Ellington

If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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Feeling Music Sound
I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Limitation Myself Time
Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Complex Form Simplicity
There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!
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Money Myself Pay Togetherness
You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself
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
I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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Limitation Myself Time
New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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Hell Music Time
Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven’t; there’s no proof of it.
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Evidence Love Myself Yourself
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
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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Dreams Finish Goal
Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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Loud Myself Open
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
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
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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God Language Prayer Understand

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