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Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.

Duke Ellington

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
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
My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?
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Interest Music Problem Yourself
You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it’s bad.
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Bad Category Goodness Listening Stop
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
New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillacs, and beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.
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Death Hide Place Walk
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
Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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Discipline Value Virtue
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
Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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Best Chance Ourselves Problem
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
The artist must say it without saying it.
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Artist Language
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
You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself

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