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

Duke Ellington

Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
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Alive Fans Himself Suspect
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
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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Knowledge Master Musician
It’s like an act of murder – you play with intent to commit something.
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Act Commitment Murder Play Yourself
The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.
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Contribution Expression Music Myself Problem
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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Live Music Myself Occupation Profession
Yet, every time God’s children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.
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Children Communication God Honesty Miracle Time
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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Dreams Finish Goal
Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Complex Form Simplicity
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
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
Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Entrance Sound Wings
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
Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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Loud Myself Open
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Goodness Kind Music
There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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Forget Inspirational Life Rule

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

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