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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

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
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
What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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Important Meaning Music Yourself
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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Knowledge Master Musician
There is no art when one does something without intention.
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Art Intention
New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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Hell Music Time
I like any and all of my associations with music: writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.
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Association Audience Listening Music Perspective Play
There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it’s successful; if it doesn’t it has failed.
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Failure Kind Music Result Success
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
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original.
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Epitome Music Original Standard
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
I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Limitation Myself Time
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music
You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself
Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
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Freedom Goodness Measurement
Every man prays in his own language.
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Himself Language Man Prayer

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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