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

Duke Ellington

There is no art when one does something without intention.
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Art Intention
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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Dreams Finish Goal
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
Every man prays in his own language.
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Himself Language Man Prayer
I like any and all of my associations with music: writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.
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Association Audience Listening Music Perspective Play
I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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Limitation Myself Time
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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Cloud Pass Sky
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
Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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Discipline Value Virtue
Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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Loud Myself Open
There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
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Art Interest Money Music
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 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
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 need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Limitation Myself Time
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

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