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"I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it."
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"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."
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"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."
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"I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across-not to just depict life-or criticize it-but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it. Things aren't that way."
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"Make movies my friend " make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul."
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"My poems are only bits of scratchingon the floor of acage."
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"A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart."
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"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."
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"Music gives life to the soul."
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"Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ..."
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"Music gives strength to the soul."
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"Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent."
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"In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland."
Europe
"I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it."
Art
"Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks."
Leader
"To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years."
London
"I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan."
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"Jazz was uplifted by what I did."
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"I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan."
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"I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas."
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"If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers."
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