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Duke Ellington

The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.
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Contribution Expression Music Myself Problem
You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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God Language Prayer Understand
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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Meaning Yourself
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
Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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Loud Myself Open
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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Dreams Finish Goal
Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Entrance Sound Wings
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
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
By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.
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Association Kind Man Yourself
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
The artist must say it without saying it.
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Artist Language
Dancing is very important to people who play music with a beat. I think that people who don’t dance, or who never did dance, don’t really understand the beat. I know musicians who don’t and never did dance, and they have difficulty communicating.
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Communication Dance Important Myself People
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
A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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Financial Loss Musical Profit

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