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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

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don’t want it.
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Art Dangerous Oneself 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
People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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People Retirement
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
Every man prays in his own language.
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Himself Language Man Prayer
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’s like an act of murder – you play with intent to commit something.
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Act Commitment Murder Play Yourself
Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Entrance Sound Wings
Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Creation Goodness Taste True
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
I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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Limitation Myself Time
There is no art when one does something without intention.
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Art Intention
There is no art without intention.
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Art Creation Creativity Intention One Liner
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
Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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Missing Play
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

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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