Problems are chances for us to do our best.
DUKE ELLINGTONSomehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.
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A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.
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I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it’s bad.
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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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New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.
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Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!
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My mother told me I was blessed, and I have always taken her word for it. Being born of – or reincarnated from – royalty is nothing Like being blessed. Royalty is inherited from another human being; blessedness comes from God.
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The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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It’s like an act of murder – you play with intent to commit something.
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