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

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

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

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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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Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

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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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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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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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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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