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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

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
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
On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.
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Beginning Learning People Teaching Understand Word
I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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Limitation Myself Time
Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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Beautiful Music Reflection
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 merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Blue Energy Myself Writing
There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
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Art Interest Money Music
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
Every man prays in his own language.
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Himself Language Man Prayer
Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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Be Yourself Effort Hard Work Inspirational Self Love
You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself
I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Limitation Myself Time
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
There are two kinds of worries – those you can do something about and those you can’t. Don’t spend any time on the latter.
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Kind Time Wasted Worry Yourself
The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.
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Contribution Expression Music Myself Problem

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