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Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

Duke Ellington

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
Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
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Herself Mistress Music Play
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
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
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 goal is a dream with a finish line.
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Dreams Finish Goal
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 no art without intention.
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Art Creation Creativity Intention One Liner
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
Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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Beautiful Music Reflection
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
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don’t want it.
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Art Dangerous Oneself Yourself
If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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Feeling Music Sound
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Blue Energy Myself Writing
A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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Financial Loss Musical Profit

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