Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.
DUKE ELLINGTONThere is no art without intention.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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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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The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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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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Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don’t want it.
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Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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Every man prays in his own language.
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Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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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 fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King’s son.
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It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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The artist must say it without saying it.
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