A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
DUKE ELLINGTONI don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.
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Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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There is no art when one does something without intention.
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Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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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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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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What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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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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Simplicity is a most complex form.
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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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