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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!

Duke Ellington

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
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Best Chance Problem Yourself
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 merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Blue Energy Myself Writing
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
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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God Language Prayer Understand
Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
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Alive Fans Himself Suspect
New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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Hell Music Time
Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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Lazy Limitation Procrastination
There is no art when one does something without intention.
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Art Intention
Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.
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Creation Instinct Past Thinking
The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.
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Contribution Expression Music Myself Problem
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
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
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
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music

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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