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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.

Duke Ellington

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
Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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Music Sing Song Sweet
I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.
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Believe Black Kind White Yourself
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
Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brainwaves in his head, and his in mine.
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Bond Friendship Myself Right
There are two kinds of worries – those you can do something about and those you can’t. Don’t spend any time on the latter.
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Kind Time Wasted Worry Yourself
There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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Forget Inspirational Life Rule
The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern’ art. What is more African than a Picasso?
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Art Creativity Modern
New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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Hell Music Time
Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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Discipline Value Virtue
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Blue Energy Myself Writing
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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Dreams Finish Goal
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
Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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Be Yourself Effort Hard Work Inspirational Self Love
Critics have their purposes, and they’re supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.
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Carry Criticism Focus Purpose Thinking
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Best Chance 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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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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