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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

People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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People Retirement
If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!
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Greatness Mediocre Musician Yourself
I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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Limitation Myself Time
Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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Best Chance Ourselves Problem
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
What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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Important Meaning Music Yourself
New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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Hell Music Time
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
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
Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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Missing Play
A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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Financial Loss Musical Profit
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 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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Forget Inspirational Life Rule
The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern’ art. What is more African than a Picasso?
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Art Creativity Modern
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
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 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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