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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

Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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Be Yourself Effort Hard Work Inspirational Self Love
What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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Important Meaning Music Yourself
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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God Language Prayer Understand
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
There are two kinds of worries – those you can do something about and those you can’t. Don’t spend any time on the latter.
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Kind Time Wasted Worry Yourself
Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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Music Sing Song Sweet
Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
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Alive Fans Himself Suspect
Every man prays in his own language.
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Himself Language Man Prayer
Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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Lazy Limitation Procrastination
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
Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Entrance Sound Wings
I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Limitation Myself Time
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
The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern’ art. What is more African than a Picasso?
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Art Creativity Modern
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
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

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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