If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
DUKE ELLINGTONFate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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There is no art without intention.
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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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Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
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Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It’s not an occupation or profession, it’s a compulsion.
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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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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.
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There is no art when one does something without intention.
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On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.
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Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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Dancing is very important to people who play music with a beat. I think that people who don’t dance, or who never did dance, don’t really understand the beat. I know musicians who don’t and never did dance, and they have difficulty communicating.
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New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillacs, and beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.
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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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