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New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.

Duke Ellington

Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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Loud Myself Open
There is no art when one does something without intention.
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Art Intention
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
Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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Limitation Love
There are two kinds of worries – those you can do something about and those you can’t. Don’t spend any time on the latter.
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Kind Time Wasted Worry Yourself
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
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
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
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
New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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Hell Music Time
You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it’s bad.
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Bad Category Goodness Listening Stop
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
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music
There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it’s successful; if it doesn’t it has failed.
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Failure Kind Music Result Success
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 problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Best Chance Problem Yourself

New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.

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