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By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.

Duke Ellington

Every man prays in his own language.
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Himself Language Man Prayer
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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Cloud Pass Sky
Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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Loud Myself Open
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
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
Dancing is very important to people who play music with a beat. I think that people who don’t dance, or who never did dance, don’t really understand the beat. I know musicians who don’t and never did dance, and they have difficulty communicating.
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Communication Dance Important Myself People
Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
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Freedom Goodness Measurement
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
I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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Limitation Myself Time
Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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Missing Play
Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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Discipline Value Virtue
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 merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Blue Energy Myself Writing
There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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Forget Inspirational Life Rule
Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brainwaves in his head, and his in mine.
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Bond Friendship Myself Right

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