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There is no art when one does something without intention.

Duke Ellington

Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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Loud Myself Open
My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?
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Interest Music Problem Yourself
You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself
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
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
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 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
People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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People Retirement
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
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
Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
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Alive Fans Himself Suspect
Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Creation Goodness Taste True
There is no art when one does something without intention.
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Art Intention
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
If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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Feeling Music Sound

There is no art when one does something without intention.

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