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

Duke Ellington

Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
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Alive Fans Himself Suspect
I like any and all of my associations with music: writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.
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Association Audience Listening Music Perspective Play
Every man prays in his own language.
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Himself Language Man Prayer
Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Entrance Sound Wings
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
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
Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.
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Ourselves Selfish Survive Virtue
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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Meaning Yourself
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
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
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
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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God Language Prayer Understand
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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Dreams Finish Goal
People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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People Retirement
There is no art when one does something without intention.
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Art Intention

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

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