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Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.

Duke Ellington

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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Knowledge Master Musician
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
Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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Beautiful Music Reflection
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
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
If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!
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Greatness Mediocre Musician Yourself
Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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Missing Play
You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself
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
The artist must say it without saying it.
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Artist Language
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music
People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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People Retirement
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
It’s like an act of murder – you play with intent to commit something.
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Act Commitment Murder Play Yourself
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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Meaning Yourself
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.
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Bond Friendship Myself Right

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