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A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.

Duke Ellington

What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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Important Meaning Music Yourself
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Best Chance Problem Yourself
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
It’s like an act of murder – you play with intent to commit something.
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Act Commitment Murder Play Yourself
Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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Music Sing Song Sweet
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
Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Creation Goodness Taste True
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Blue Energy Myself Writing
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
Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
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Alive Fans Himself Suspect
New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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Hell Music Time
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
Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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Best Chance Ourselves Problem
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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Cloud Pass Sky
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
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

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