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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
Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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Best Chance Ourselves Problem
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
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
Critics have their purposes, 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 they did.
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Carry Criticism Focus Purpose Thinking
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
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
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
Yet, every time God’s children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.
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Children Communication God Honesty Miracle Time
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
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
Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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Discipline Value Virtue
If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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Feeling Music Sound
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

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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