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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.

Duke Ellington

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
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
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
Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It’s not an occupation or profession, it’s a compulsion.
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Live Music Myself Occupation Profession
Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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Be Yourself Effort Hard Work Inspirational Self Love
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
Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Creation Goodness Taste True
Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
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Herself Mistress Music Play
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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Cloud Pass Sky
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.
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Famous Fate Kindness Myself Young
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Blue Energy Myself Writing
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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Meaning Yourself
I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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Limitation Myself Time
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
Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Complex Form Simplicity
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music

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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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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