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Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.

Duke Ellington

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
New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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Hell Music Time
A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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Financial Loss Musical Profit
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
Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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Best Chance Ourselves Problem
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don’t want it.
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Art Dangerous Oneself Yourself
What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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Important Meaning Music Yourself
Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Complex Form Simplicity
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
It’s like an act of murder – you play with intent to commit something.
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Act Commitment Murder Play Yourself
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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God Language Prayer Understand
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
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
There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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Forget Inspirational Life Rule
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Blue Energy Myself Writing
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

Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.

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