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There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.

Duke Ellington

It’s like an act of murder – you play with intent to commit something.
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Act Commitment Murder Play Yourself
Every man prays in his own language.
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Himself Language Man Prayer
Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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Missing Play
Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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Best Chance Ourselves Problem
New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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Hell Music Time
You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself
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
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 don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Limitation Myself Time
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
There is no art without intention.
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Art Creation Creativity Intention One Liner
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 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
Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.
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Creation Instinct Past Thinking

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