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Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.

Duke Ellington

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
Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Entrance Sound Wings
There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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Forget Inspirational Life Rule
I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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Limitation Myself Time
You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself
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
Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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Music Sing Song Sweet
Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven’t; there’s no proof of it.
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Evidence Love Myself Yourself
Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
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Freedom Goodness Measurement
Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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Lazy Limitation Procrastination
Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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Loud Myself Open
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
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
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
Every man prays in his own language.
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Himself Language Man Prayer

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