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Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.

Duke Ellington

Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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Loud Myself Open
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
It’s like an act of murder – you play with intent to commit something.
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Act Commitment Murder Play Yourself
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
My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?
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Interest Music Problem Yourself
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
The artist must say it without saying it.
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Artist Language
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
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Best Chance Problem Yourself
People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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People Retirement
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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Meaning Yourself
There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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Forget Inspirational Life Rule
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
Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Creation Goodness Taste True
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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Dreams Finish Goal
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

Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.

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