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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

Everybody in Canada seemed to listen to what they enjoyed, and nobody could tell them what to like, or what was the popular, or what was the In thing. Even today, it is very hard to brainwash a Canadian.
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Country Enjoyment Listening Popular
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Best Chance Problem Yourself
Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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Lazy Limitation Procrastination
Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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Limitation Love
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
My mother told me I was blessed, and I have always taken her word for it. Being born of – or reincarnated from – royalty is nothing Like being blessed. Royalty is inherited from another human being; blessedness comes from God.
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Blessing Human Inheritance Mom Myself Royalty
I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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Limitation Myself Time
Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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Loud Myself Open
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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Hear Myself Performance
You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself
New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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Hell Music Time
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
A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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Financial Loss Musical Profit
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
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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Knowledge Master Musician
Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
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Alive Fans Himself Suspect

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