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There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.

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By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.
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Association Kind Man Yourself
If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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Feeling Music Sound
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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Cloud Pass Sky
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
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
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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Dreams Finish Goal
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
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
Every man prays in his own language.
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Himself Language Man Prayer
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
The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.
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Contribution Expression Music Myself Problem
Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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Best Chance Ourselves Problem
Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
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Herself Mistress Music Play
I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.
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Appearance Interest Myself Realize Right
People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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People Retirement
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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