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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

New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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Hell Music Time
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
There is no art without intention.
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Art Creation Creativity Intention One Liner
Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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Beautiful Music Reflection
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
Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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Loud Myself Open
Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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Limitation Love
People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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People Retirement
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
Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Creation Goodness Taste True
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
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
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.
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Famous Fate Kindness Myself Young
There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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Forget Inspirational Life Rule
By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.
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Association Kind Man Yourself
Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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Be Yourself Effort Hard Work Inspirational Self Love

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