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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

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
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
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Blue Energy Myself Writing
Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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Lazy Limitation Procrastination
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original.
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Epitome Music Original Standard
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
Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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Beautiful Music Reflection
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
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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Dreams Finish Goal
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Best Chance Problem Yourself
There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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Forget Inspirational Life Rule
I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.
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Appearance Interest Myself Realize Right
A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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Financial Loss Musical Profit
Yet, every time God’s children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.
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Children Communication God Honesty Miracle Time
Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Complex Form Simplicity
Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Entrance Sound Wings

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