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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

Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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Discipline Value Virtue
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 musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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Financial Loss Musical Profit
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
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
Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Complex Form Simplicity
Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Creation Goodness Taste True
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
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
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
What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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Important Meaning Music Yourself
Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Entrance Sound Wings
I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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Limitation Myself Time
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
New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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Hell Music Time
Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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Missing Play

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