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Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.

Duke Ellington

There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it’s successful; if it doesn’t it has failed.
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Failure Kind Music Result Success
You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself
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
I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Limitation Myself Time
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
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
If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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Feeling Music Sound
Dancing is very important to people who play music with a beat. I think that people who don’t dance, or who never did dance, don’t really understand the beat. I know musicians who don’t and never did dance, and they have difficulty communicating.
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Communication Dance Important Myself People
Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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Beautiful Music Reflection
Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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Loud Myself Open
Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It’s not an occupation or profession, it’s a compulsion.
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Live Music Myself Occupation Profession
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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Knowledge Master Musician
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
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
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

Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.

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Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.

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