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Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.

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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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Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.

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in recognition of his musical genius, which evoked aesthetically the principles of democracy through the medium of jazz and thus made an indelible contribution to art and culture.

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There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.

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American Music, Texas Style.

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Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.

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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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My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

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People do not retire. They are retired by others.

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There are two kinds of worries -- those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.

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

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Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

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The Europeans who went to Africa came back with modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso

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Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.

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You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it.

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Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.

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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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Playing bop is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.

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The common root, of course, comes out of Africa. That's the pulse.The African pulse. It's all the way back from . . . the old slave chants and up through the blues, the jazz, and up through rock. And it's all got the African pulse.

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

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

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Roaming through the jungle of oohs and ahs, searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

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A problem is your chance to do your best.

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We aren't worried about posterity we want it to sound good right now.

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