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

Duke Ellington

Everybody in Canada seemed to listen to what they enjoyed, and nobody could tell them what to like, or what was the popular, or what was the In thing. Even today, it is very hard to brainwash a Canadian.
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Country Enjoyment Listening Popular
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
You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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Knowledge Master Musician
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
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
Every man prays in his own language.
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Himself Language Man Prayer
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music
Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Complex Form Simplicity
It’s like an act of murder – you play with intent to commit something.
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Act Commitment Murder Play Yourself
The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.
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Contribution Expression Music Myself Problem
Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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Discipline Value Virtue
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
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
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
Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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Be Yourself Effort Hard Work Inspirational Self Love

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