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I fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King’s son.

Duke Ellington

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
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 the tonal reflection of beauty.
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Beautiful Music Reflection
The artist must say it without saying it.
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Artist Language
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Best Chance Problem Yourself
Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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Missing Play
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
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
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.
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Death Hide Place Walk
I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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Limitation Myself Time
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
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
Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven’t; there’s no proof of it.
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Evidence Love Myself Yourself
There is no art without intention.
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Art Creation Creativity Intention One Liner
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.
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Famous Fate Kindness Myself Young
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

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