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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?

Duke Ellington

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Blue Energy Myself Writing
Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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Music Sing Song Sweet
Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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Limitation Love
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
Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
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Alive Fans Himself Suspect
There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
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Art Interest Money Music
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 two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Best Chance Problem 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
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
Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Creation Goodness Taste True
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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God Language Prayer Understand
Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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Lazy Limitation Procrastination
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
Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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Missing Play

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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