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A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.

Duke Ellington

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
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
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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God Language Prayer Understand
Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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Best Chance Ourselves Problem
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
Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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Discipline Value Virtue
I fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King’s son.
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Finding Himself Man Request
A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.
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Doll Herself Pretty Woman
My mother told me I was blessed, and I have always taken her word for it. Being born of – or reincarnated from – royalty is nothing Like being blessed. Royalty is inherited from another human being; blessedness comes from God.
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Blessing Human Inheritance Mom Myself Royalty
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
New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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Hell Music Time
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
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
Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
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Freedom Goodness Measurement
Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brainwaves in his head, and his in mine.
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Bond Friendship Myself Right
Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Entrance Sound Wings

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