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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

Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Entrance Sound Wings
There is no art when one does something without intention.
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Art Intention
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Blue Energy Myself Writing
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
New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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Hell Music Time
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.
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Famous Fate Kindness Myself Young
Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.
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Creation Instinct Past Thinking
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
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
There is no art without intention.
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Art Creation Creativity Intention One Liner
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
Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.
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Ourselves Selfish Survive Virtue
It’s like an act of murder – you play with intent to commit something.
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Act Commitment Murder Play Yourself
Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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Music Sing Song Sweet
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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Dreams Finish Goal
Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
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Alive Fans Himself Suspect

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