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

Duke Ellington

Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Entrance Sound Wings
Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It’s not an occupation or profession, it’s a compulsion.
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Live Music Myself Occupation Profession
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
My mother told me I was blessed, and I have always taken her word for it. Being born of – or reincarnated from – royalty is nothing Like being blessed. Royalty is inherited from another human being; blessedness comes from God.
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Blessing Human Inheritance Mom Myself Royalty
If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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Feeling Music Sound
My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?
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Interest Music Problem Yourself
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
Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
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Alive Fans Himself Suspect
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 problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.
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Contribution Expression Music Myself Problem
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
There is no art without intention.
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Art Creation Creativity Intention One Liner
Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Creation Goodness Taste True
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
People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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People Retirement
Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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Be Yourself Effort Hard Work Inspirational Self Love
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original.
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Epitome Music Original Standard
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
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
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
I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Limitation Myself Time
I’m sure critics have their purpose, 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 he did.
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Concern Criticism Himself Purpose Thinking
New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillacs, and beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.
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Death Hide Place Walk
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
Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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Beautiful Music Reflection
You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself
Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Complex Form Simplicity

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

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