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

Duke Ellington

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.
DUKE ELLINGTON

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
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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Cloud Pass Sky
It’s like an act of murder – you play with intent to commit something.
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Act Commitment Murder Play Yourself
If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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Feeling Music Sound
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
Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
DUKE ELLINGTON

Entrance Sound Wings
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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Meaning Yourself
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
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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Knowledge Master Musician
Everybody in Canada seemed to listen to what they enjoyed, and nobody could tell them what to like, or what was the popular, or what was the In thing. Even today, it is very hard to brainwash a Canadian.
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Country Enjoyment Listening Popular
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
What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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Important Meaning Music 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
Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Complex Form Simplicity
Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
DUKE ELLINGTON

Loud Myself Open

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

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