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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.

Duke Ellington

Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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Lazy Limitation Procrastination
On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.
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Beginning Learning People Teaching Understand Word
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music
Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Entrance Sound Wings
Everybody in Canada seemed to listen to what they enjoyed, and nobody could tell them what to like, or what was the popular, or what was the In thing. Even today, it is very hard to brainwash a Canadian.
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Country Enjoyment Listening Popular
Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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Music Sing Song Sweet
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
Every man prays in his own language.
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Himself Language Man Prayer
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
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Best Chance Problem Yourself
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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God Language Prayer Understand
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
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
Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
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Herself Mistress Music Play
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don’t want it.
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Art Dangerous Oneself Yourself
Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Creation Goodness Taste True

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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