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Problems are chances for us to do our best.

Duke Ellington

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
Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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Beautiful Music Reflection
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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God Language Prayer Understand
There is no art without intention.
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Art Creation Creativity Intention One Liner
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
If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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Feeling Music Sound
There is no art when one does something without intention.
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Art Intention
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
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Best Chance Problem Yourself
Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Complex Form Simplicity
People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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People Retirement
What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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Important Meaning Music Yourself
I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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Limitation Myself Time
A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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Financial Loss Musical Profit
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
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

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