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Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.

Duke Ellington

It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line
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Beginning Boundary Classical Decision Difficult Lying
If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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Feeling Music Sound
A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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Financial Loss Musical Profit
Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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Discipline Value Virtue
Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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Music Sing Song Sweet
Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
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Herself Mistress Music Play
Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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Beautiful Music Reflection
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
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 no art without intention.
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Art Creation Creativity Intention One Liner
Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Creation Goodness Taste True
Critics have their purposes, and they’re supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.
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Carry Criticism Focus Purpose Thinking
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
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
It’s like an act of murder – you play with intent to commit something.
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Act Commitment Murder Play Yourself
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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