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Of the One O’Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: “I wish it were mine”.

Duke Ellington

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.
DUKE ELLINGTON

Believe Black Kind White 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.
DUKE ELLINGTON

Evidence Love Myself Yourself
Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.
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Ourselves Selfish Survive Virtue
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
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
I like any and all of my associations with music: writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.
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Association Audience Listening Music Perspective Play
Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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Limitation Love
I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.
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Appearance Interest Myself Realize Right
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music
You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself
There is no art without intention.
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Art Creation Creativity Intention One Liner
Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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Lazy Limitation Procrastination
Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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Music Sing Song Sweet
Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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Best Chance Ourselves Problem
Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Entrance Sound Wings
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.
DUKE ELLINGTON

Bond Friendship Myself Right

Of the One O’Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: “I wish it were mine”.

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Of the One O’Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: “I wish it were mine”.

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