Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
DUKE ELLINGTONMusic is the tonal reflection of beauty.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern’ art. What is more African than a Picasso?
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The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.
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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
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Every man prays in his own language.
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Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
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Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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Everybody in Canada seemed to listen to what they enjoyed, and nobody could tell them what to like, or what was the popular, or what was the In thing. Even today, it is very hard to brainwash a Canadian.
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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.
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It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line
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Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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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.
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