Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.
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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.Duke Ellington
There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
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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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