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Duke Ellington

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
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
You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself
Of the One O’Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: “I wish it were mine”.
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Hear Myself Performance
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
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
It’s like an act of murder – you play with intent to commit something.
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Act Commitment Murder Play Yourself
Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
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Freedom Goodness Measurement
The artist must say it without saying it.
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Artist Language
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
Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Entrance Sound Wings
There is no art when one does something without intention.
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Art Intention
Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brainwaves in his head, and his in mine.
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Bond Friendship Myself Right
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
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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