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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

There is no art when one does something without intention.
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Art Intention
Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Creation Goodness Taste True
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
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
Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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Discipline Value Virtue
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 are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music
Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Complex Form Simplicity
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
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
Every man prays in his own language.
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Himself Language Man Prayer
Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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Best Chance Ourselves Problem
You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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God Language Prayer Understand
A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.
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Doll Herself Pretty Woman
New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillacs, and beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.
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Death Hide Place Walk

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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