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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.

Duke Ellington

A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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Dreams Finish Goal
Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Entrance Sound Wings
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
Every man prays in his own language.
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Himself Language Man Prayer
A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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Financial Loss Musical Profit
If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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Feeling Music Sound
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Best Chance Problem Yourself
Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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Music Sing Song Sweet
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original.
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Epitome Music Original Standard
Dancing is very important to people who play music with a beat. I think that people who don’t dance, or who never did dance, don’t really understand the beat. I know musicians who don’t and never did dance, and they have difficulty communicating.
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Communication Dance Important Myself People
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 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
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Blue Energy Myself Writing
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
What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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Important Meaning Music 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

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