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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.

Duke Ellington

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
Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Creation Goodness Taste True
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music
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
If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!
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Greatness Mediocre Musician Yourself
A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.
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Doll Herself Pretty Woman
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
You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself
What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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Important Meaning Music 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
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
Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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Limitation Love
A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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Financial Loss Musical Profit
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
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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Dreams Finish Goal
Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.
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Creation Instinct Past Thinking

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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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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