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Duke Ellington

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
Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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Be Yourself Effort Hard Work Inspirational Self Love
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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God Language Prayer Understand
Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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Music Sing Song Sweet
A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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Financial Loss Musical Profit
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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Knowledge Master Musician
My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?
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Interest Music Problem Yourself
Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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Best Chance Ourselves Problem
Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven’t; there’s no proof of it.
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Evidence Love Myself Yourself
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
Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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Limitation Love
Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Complex Form Simplicity
Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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Beautiful Music Reflection
You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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Cloud Pass Sky
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

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

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