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Simplicity is a most complex form.

Duke Ellington

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
People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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People Retirement
Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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Be Yourself Effort Hard Work Inspirational Self Love
Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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Missing Play
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
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
There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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Forget Inspirational Life Rule
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
The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern’ art. What is more African than a Picasso?
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Art Creativity Modern
You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself
Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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Lazy Limitation Procrastination
What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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Important Meaning Music Yourself
Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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Best Chance Ourselves Problem
It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line
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Beginning Boundary Classical Decision Difficult Lying
Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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Loud Myself Open

Simplicity is a most complex form.

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