Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
DUKE ELLINGTONThere are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it’s successful; if it doesn’t it has failed.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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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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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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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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You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it’s bad.
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The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.
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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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What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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The artist must say it without saying it.
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Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
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There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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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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If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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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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Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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