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

Duke Ellington

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
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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God Language Prayer Understand
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Best Chance Problem Yourself
People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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People Retirement
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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Knowledge Master Musician
Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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Loud Myself Open
Dancing is very important to people who play music with a beat. I think that people who don’t dance, or who never did dance, don’t really understand the beat. I know musicians who don’t and never did dance, and they have difficulty communicating.
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Communication Dance Important Myself People
You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it’s bad.
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Bad Category Goodness Listening Stop
Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven’t; there’s no proof of it.
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Evidence Love Myself Yourself
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
Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Complex Form Simplicity
On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.
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Beginning Learning People Teaching Understand Word
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
Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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Music Sing Song Sweet
If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!
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Greatness Mediocre Musician Yourself
Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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Discipline Value Virtue

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