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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

There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
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Art Interest Money Music
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
Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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Best Chance Ourselves Problem
There is no art without intention.
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Art Creation Creativity Intention One Liner
Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Creation Goodness Taste True
Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
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Freedom Goodness Measurement
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
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
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
It’s like an act of murder – you play with intent to commit something.
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Act Commitment Murder Play Yourself
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
New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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Hell Music Time
Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.
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Creation Instinct Past Thinking
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
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
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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Meaning Yourself

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