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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

There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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Forget Inspirational Life Rule
Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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Limitation Love
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
Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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Beautiful Music Reflection
I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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Limitation Myself Time
Of the One O’Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: “I wish it were mine”.
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Hear Myself Performance
Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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Lazy Limitation Procrastination
I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Limitation Myself Time
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music
The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.
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Contribution Expression Music Myself Problem
Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Complex Form Simplicity
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Best Chance Problem 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
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
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
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

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