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New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillacs, and beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.

Duke Ellington

On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.
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Beginning Learning People Teaching Understand Word
Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
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Herself Mistress Music Play
Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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Limitation Love
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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Meaning Yourself
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
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music
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
The artist must say it without saying it.
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Artist Language
Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Creation Goodness Taste True
Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
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Freedom Goodness Measurement
Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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Be Yourself Effort Hard Work Inspirational Self Love
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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God Language Prayer Understand
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
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
Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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Missing Play
The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern’ art. What is more African than a Picasso?
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Art Creativity Modern

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