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There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!
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Money Myself Pay Togetherness
It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line
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Beginning Boundary Classical Decision Difficult Lying
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
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
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
You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music
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
The artist must say it without saying it.
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Artist Language
There is no art when one does something without intention.
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Art Intention
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
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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Meaning Yourself
It’s like an act of murder – you play with intent to commit something.
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Act Commitment Murder Play Yourself
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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Knowledge Master Musician
Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
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Herself Mistress Music Play
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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Cloud Pass Sky

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