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Duke Ellington

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
I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Limitation Myself Time
Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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Discipline Value Virtue
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
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
Every man prays in his own language.
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Himself Language Man Prayer
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
Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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Loud Myself Open
New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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Hell Music Time
You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself
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
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music
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
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Blue Energy Myself Writing
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
Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Complex Form Simplicity

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