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If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!

Duke Ellington

Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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Discipline Value Virtue
What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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Important Meaning Music Yourself
Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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Be Yourself Effort Hard Work Inspirational Self Love
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 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
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
Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.
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Creation Instinct Past Thinking
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
People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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People Retirement
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
You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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Cloud Pass Sky
Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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Limitation Love
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
Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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Best Chance Ourselves Problem
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

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