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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

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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Limitation Love
Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
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Alive Fans Himself Suspect
Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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Best Chance Ourselves Problem
By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.
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Association Kind Man Yourself
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
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
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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Knowledge Master 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
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Best Chance Problem Yourself
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
New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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Hell Music Time
Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
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Herself Mistress Music Play
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 musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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Financial Loss Musical Profit
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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Cloud Pass Sky

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