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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.

Love Is Indescribable And Unconditional. I Could Tell You A Thousand Things That It Is Not, But Not One That It Is. Either You Have It Or You Haven't; There's No Proof Of It.

In Music, As You Develop A Theme Or Musical Idea, There Are Many Points At Which Directions Must Be Decided, And At Any Time I Was In The Throes Of Debate With Myself, Harmonically Or Melodically, I Would Turn To Billy Strayhorn. We Would Talk, And Then The Whole World Would Come Into Focus. The Steady Hand Of His Good Judgment Pointed To The Clear Way That Was Fitting For Us. He Was Not, As He Was Often Referred To By Many, My Alter Ego. Billy Strayhorn Was My Right Arm, My Left Arm, All The Eyes In The Back Of My Head, My Brainwaves In His Head, And His In Mine.

Playing 'bop' Is Like Playing Scrabble With All The Vowels Missing.

If Anybody Was Mr. Jazz It Was Louis Armstrong. He Was The Epitome Of Jazz And Always Will Be. He Is What I Call An American Standard, An American Original.