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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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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 the tonal reflection of beauty.
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Beautiful Music Reflection
I’m sure critics have their purpose, 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 he did.
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Concern Criticism Himself Purpose Thinking
There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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Forget Inspirational Life Rule
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Blue Energy Myself Writing
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
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
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
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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Dreams Finish Goal
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
There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!
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Money Myself Pay Togetherness
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
There is no art when one does something without intention.
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Art Intention
I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Limitation Myself Time
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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God Language Prayer Understand
Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Complex Form Simplicity
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
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
I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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Limitation Myself Time
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
A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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Financial Loss Musical Profit
Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Creation Goodness Taste True
Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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Missing Play
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
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 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
What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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Important Meaning Music Yourself

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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