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Duke Ellington

I’m sure critics have their purpose, and they’re supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what he did.
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Concern Criticism Himself Purpose Thinking
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
There are two kinds of worries – those you can do something about and those you can’t. Don’t spend any time on the latter.
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Kind Time Wasted Worry Yourself
Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brainwaves in his head, and his in mine.
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Bond Friendship Myself Right
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
People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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People Retirement
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Best Chance Problem Yourself
Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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Lazy Limitation Procrastination
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
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
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
New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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Hell Music Time
You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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Meaning Yourself
Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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Limitation Love
Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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Music Sing Song Sweet

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

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