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Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.

Duke Ellington

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 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
Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Creation Goodness Taste True
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
Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Complex Form Simplicity
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
Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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Discipline Value Virtue
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
Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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Lazy Limitation Procrastination
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
Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Entrance Sound Wings
If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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Feeling Music Sound
The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.
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Himself Important Known Listening Musician
Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
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Herself Mistress Music Play
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. What I need is a deadline!
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Limitation Myself Time

Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.

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