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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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
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
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
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
A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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Financial Loss Musical Profit
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don’t want it.
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Art Dangerous Oneself Yourself
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
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
People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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People Retirement
What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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Important Meaning Music Yourself
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
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
Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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Limitation Love
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
I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Limitation Myself Time

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

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