"What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?"

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Duke Ellington

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“I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.”
“Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does not illuminate your subject in some new and useful way, scratch it out.”
“The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful.”
“Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you.”
“This was something sure to be crammed full of warm secrets, like an antique clock built when peace filled the world.”
“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
“I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-" "The world does not forgive mistakes so quickly, my girl." He sounds bitter and sad. "If the world will not forgive me," I say softly, "I shall have to learn to forgive myself." He nods in understanding. "And how will you marry? Or do you intend to marry?" I think of Kartik, and tears threaten. "I shall meet someone one day, as Mother found you.”
“Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.”

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