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

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Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It’s not an occupation or profession, it’s a compulsion.
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Live Music Myself Occupation Profession
Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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Lazy Limitation Procrastination
Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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Every man prays in his own language.
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Himself Language Man Prayer
What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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Important Meaning Music Yourself
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Best Chance Problem Yourself
New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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Hell Music Time
I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Limitation Myself Time
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Blue Energy Myself Writing
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
Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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Limitation Love
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 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
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
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

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