There is no art when one does something without intention.
DUKE ELLINGTONLove is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!
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It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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There are two kinds of worries – those you can do something about and those you can’t. Don’t spend any time on the latter.
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Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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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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Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brainwaves in his head, and his in mine.
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Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
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New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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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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Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
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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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Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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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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