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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

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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God Language Prayer Understand
The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.
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Himself Important Known Listening Musician
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
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
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
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
Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
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Alive Fans Himself Suspect
There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
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Art Interest Money Music
Every man prays in his own language.
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Himself Language Man Prayer
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
Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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Be Yourself Effort Hard Work Inspirational Self Love
I fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King’s son.
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Finding Himself Man Request
Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Creation Goodness Taste True
What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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Important Meaning Music Yourself
Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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Discipline Value Virtue
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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Knowledge Master Musician

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