Simplicity is a most complex form.
DUKE ELLINGTONSelf-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.
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Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.
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Yet, every time God’s children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.
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Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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Of the One O’Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: “I wish it were mine”.
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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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I like any and all of my associations with music: writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.
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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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Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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There is no art when one does something without intention.
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New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it’s bad.
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