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The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern’ art. What is more African than a Picasso?

Duke Ellington

Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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Lazy Limitation Procrastination
By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.
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Association Kind Man Yourself
What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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Important Meaning Music Yourself
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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God Language Prayer Understand
I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Limitation Myself Time
Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Creation Goodness Taste True
Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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Loud Myself Open
Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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Limitation Love
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
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
There is no art when one does something without intention.
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Art Intention
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
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
There are two kinds of worries – those you can do something about and those you can’t. Don’t spend any time on the latter.
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Kind Time Wasted Worry Yourself
There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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Forget Inspirational Life Rule
Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brainwaves in his head, and his in mine.
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Bond Friendship Myself Right

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