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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

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
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Best Chance Problem Yourself
It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line
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Beginning Boundary Classical Decision Difficult Lying
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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Knowledge Master Musician
There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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Forget Inspirational Life Rule
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
Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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Loud Myself Open
Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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Be Yourself Effort Hard Work Inspirational Self Love
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music
Every man prays in his own language.
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Himself Language Man Prayer
If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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Feeling Music Sound
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
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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Dreams Finish Goal
There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!
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Money Myself Pay Togetherness
People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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People Retirement
Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.
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Ourselves Selfish Survive Virtue

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