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

Duke Ellington

I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.
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Believe Black Kind White Yourself
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.
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Famous Fate Kindness Myself Young
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
Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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Beautiful Music Reflection
There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
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Art Interest Money Music
I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.
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Appearance Interest Myself Realize Right
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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Meaning 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
The artist must say it without saying it.
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Artist Language
Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Creation Goodness Taste True
Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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Limitation Love
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
Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
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Herself Mistress Music Play
New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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Hell Music Time
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
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

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