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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
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
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
You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself
There is no art without intention.
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Art Creation Creativity Intention One Liner
There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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Forget Inspirational Life Rule
People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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People Retirement
The artist must say it without saying it.
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Artist Language
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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Meaning Yourself
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
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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Knowledge Master Musician
I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Limitation Myself Time
By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.
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Association Kind Man Yourself
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
Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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Music Sing Song Sweet
Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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Limitation Love
My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?
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Interest Music Problem Yourself
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Best Chance Problem Yourself
Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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Beautiful Music Reflection
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Blue Energy Myself Writing
If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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Feeling Music Sound
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
Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Creation Goodness Taste True
My mother told me I was blessed, and I have always taken her word for it. Being born of – or reincarnated from – royalty is nothing Like being blessed. Royalty is inherited from another human being; blessedness comes from God.
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Blessing Human Inheritance Mom Myself Royalty
Every man prays in his own language.
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Himself Language Man Prayer
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

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