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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

Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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Music Sing Song Sweet
Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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Loud Myself Open
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original.
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Epitome Music Original Standard
Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Complex Form Simplicity
My mother told me I was blessed, and I have always taken her word for it. Being born of – or reincarnated from – royalty is nothing Like being blessed. Royalty is inherited from another human being; blessedness comes from God.
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Blessing Human Inheritance Mom Myself Royalty
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
You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself
Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.
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Ourselves Selfish Survive Virtue
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
Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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Missing Play
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music
If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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Feeling Music Sound
There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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Forget Inspirational Life Rule
What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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Important Meaning Music Yourself
Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
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Herself Mistress Music Play
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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God Language Prayer Understand

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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