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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
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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Dreams Finish Goal
I like any and all of my associations with music: writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.
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Association Audience Listening Music Perspective Play
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music
Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Creation Goodness Taste True
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
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
People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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People Retirement
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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Cloud Pass Sky
It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line
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Beginning Boundary Classical Decision Difficult Lying
Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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Music Sing Song Sweet
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
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
Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Entrance Sound Wings
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
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

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