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

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
I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Limitation Myself Time
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
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Blue Energy Myself Writing
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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Dreams Finish Goal
Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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Discipline Value Virtue
Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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Beautiful Music Reflection
You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself
If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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Feeling Music Sound
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
Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Creation Goodness Taste True
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
Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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Lazy Limitation Procrastination
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.
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Famous Fate Kindness Myself Young
I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.
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Believe Black Kind White Yourself
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original.
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Epitome Music Original Standard

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