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

Duke Ellington

Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brainwaves in his head, and his in mine.
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Bond Friendship Myself Right
Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
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Freedom Goodness Measurement
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 are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music
The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern’ art. What is more African than a Picasso?
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Art Creativity Modern
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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Meaning Yourself
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Blue Energy Myself Writing
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
Every man prays in his own language.
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Himself Language Man Prayer
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
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
There is no art when one does something without intention.
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Art Intention
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
Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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Missing Play
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
Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
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Alive Fans Himself Suspect

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

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