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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

A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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Financial Loss Musical Profit
There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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Forget Inspirational Life Rule
Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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Beautiful Music Reflection
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
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
Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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Lazy Limitation Procrastination
There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
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Art Interest Money Music
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
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
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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Dreams Finish Goal
Of the One O’Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: “I wish it were mine”.
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Hear Myself Performance
You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself
Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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Loud Myself Open
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
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
What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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Important Meaning Music Yourself

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