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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

Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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Discipline Value Virtue
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
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
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
New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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Hell Music Time
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
Every man prays in his own language.
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Himself Language Man Prayer
Of the One O’Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: “I wish it were mine”.
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Hear Myself Performance
New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillacs, and beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.
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Death Hide Place Walk
There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!
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Money Myself Pay Togetherness
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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Dreams Finish Goal
There is no art without intention.
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Art Creation Creativity Intention One Liner
If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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Feeling Music Sound
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
I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Limitation Myself Time
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

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