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

Duke Ellington

I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.
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Believe Black Kind White Yourself
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 are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music
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
People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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People Retirement
There is no art without intention.
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Art Creation Creativity Intention One Liner
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
Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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Best Chance Ourselves Problem
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
There is no art when one does something without intention.
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Art Intention
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Blue Energy Myself Writing
What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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Important Meaning Music Yourself
Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Entrance Sound Wings
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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Cloud Pass Sky
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
Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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Discipline Value Virtue

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

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