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Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.

Duke Ellington

The artist must say it without saying it.
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Artist Language
Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
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Herself Mistress Music Play
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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Meaning Yourself
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don’t want it.
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Art Dangerous Oneself Yourself
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
Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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Missing Play
There is no art when one does something without intention.
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Art Intention
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
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
You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself
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
You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it’s bad.
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Bad Category Goodness Listening Stop
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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Knowledge Master Musician
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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God Language Prayer Understand
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
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Best Chance Problem Yourself

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