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A goal is a dream with a finish line.

Duke Ellington

Yet, every time God’s children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.
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Children Communication God Honesty Miracle Time
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
Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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Beautiful Music Reflection
I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Limitation Myself Time
I like any and all of my associations with music: writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.
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Association Audience Listening Music Perspective Play
Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Entrance Sound Wings
You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself
Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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Loud Myself Open
Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It’s not an occupation or profession, it’s a compulsion.
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Live Music Myself Occupation Profession
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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Dreams Finish Goal
Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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Best Chance Ourselves Problem
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
There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it’s successful; if it doesn’t it has failed.
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Failure Kind Music Result Success
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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Knowledge Master Musician
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
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

A goal is a dream with a finish line.

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