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Duke Ellington Quotes: It's like an act of murder - you play with intent to commit something.
         

It's like an act of murder - you play with intent to commit something.


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A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

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The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.



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Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.



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You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.



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Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.

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