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

Duke Ellington

If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!
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Greatness Mediocre Musician Yourself
Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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Discipline Value Virtue
Critics have their purposes, 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 they did.
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Carry Criticism Focus Purpose Thinking
It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line
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Beginning Boundary Classical Decision Difficult Lying
Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Entrance Sound Wings
Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
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Freedom Goodness Measurement
Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Complex Form Simplicity
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
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music
I fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King’s son.
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Finding Himself Man Request
The artist must say it without saying it.
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Artist Language
I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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Limitation Myself Time
Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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Best Chance Ourselves Problem
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
Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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Missing Play
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

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