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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

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Blue Energy Myself Writing
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
Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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Discipline Value Virtue
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
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
I’m sure critics have their purpose, 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 he did.
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Concern Criticism Himself Purpose Thinking
Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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Best Chance Ourselves Problem
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
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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Meaning Yourself
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
It’s like an act of murder – you play with intent to commit something.
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Act Commitment Murder Play Yourself
If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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Feeling Music Sound
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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Dreams Finish Goal
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 music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music
New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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Hell Music Time

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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