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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

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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Cloud Pass Sky
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
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
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Best Chance Problem Yourself
The artist must say it without saying it.
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Artist Language
If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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Feeling Music Sound
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
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
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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God Language Prayer Understand
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 are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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Forget Inspirational Life Rule
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
Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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Lazy Limitation Procrastination
I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.
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Believe Black Kind White Yourself
I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Limitation Myself Time

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