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Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don’t want it.

Duke Ellington

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music
Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Complex Form Simplicity
Everybody in Canada seemed to listen to what they enjoyed, and nobody could tell them what to like, or what was the popular, or what was the In thing. Even today, it is very hard to brainwash a Canadian.
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Country Enjoyment Listening Popular
I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.
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Believe Black Kind White Yourself
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Blue Energy Myself Writing
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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Cloud Pass Sky
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
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Best Chance Problem Yourself
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
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
What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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Important Meaning Music Yourself
There is no art without intention.
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Art Creation Creativity Intention One Liner
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
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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Meaning Yourself
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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God Language Prayer Understand
If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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Feeling Music Sound

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